“Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“fiction started up, and we started burning brain cells on stories about things that didn’t happen to people who didn’t exist. Why?… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Jack gave her a fierce look. “Your mother gave up the best thing she had in her life. I know you miss… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
Valerie Martin was my mentor in college and she liked fiction that said something. That made it essential to have something to… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy,… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“Placing his suitcase on the seat next to him, he unbuttoned his suit jacket, loosened up his necktie and removed his fedora.… — Peprah Boasiako Copy Share Image
“Real life is generally very haphazard in its plotting, and I think a lot of people lament that, and turn to fiction… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
“I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or… — Janet Street-Porter Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining. — Lester del Rey Copy Share Image
“Generally, you have to love someone else a lot to keep carrying on like that, I thought. To have nothing and no… — Michael Reed Copy Share Image
“One word came to mind: pee-yew. Evan tried to place the odor; it wasn’t a heap of decayed garbage or that of… — H.B. Bolton Copy Share Image
“There are only two things you’ll ever need to know about me, Farin—and you should know them well. I’m very smart, and… — Heather O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I shook Alan’s hand and the feeling just grew stronger. It was a bit frustrating. Like when you’re looking for what to… — Pamela Alvarado Copy Share Image
“Humph! A text message that said, ‘What’s up, sexy?’ You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the… — N. Wood Lane Copy Share Image
“He pries me from his chest and drops his hand from the back of my head, tracing my ear, along my jawline.… — Rebecca Berto Copy Share Image
Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking:… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage… — A.J. Waines Copy Share Image
“If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to… — Stacy Hawkins Adams Copy Share Image
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie’s fairy-light-thing. Do you think there’s any chance I’m a fairy?” “No, Z. Focus. True… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, 'If no one is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
With fiction, you can do whatever you want to, but if you are making a film on someone, you have to stick… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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