“Science fiction and fantasy literature has always been defined by tales of heroism. It is meant to represent humanity at our very… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“(M)emories are often amalgams of truth and fiction, sewn together in our heads by our subconscious to support our personal beliefs about… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
“My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I… — Yelle Hughes Copy Share Image
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“The money we spend to help you is really to help ourselves. We invest in you because you will do great things,… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
“If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“Okay, this is formally beyond fiction.” Sherri began rocking on the bed. She laughed uncomfortably. “Is there a category beyond fiction? Science… — Gary Williams Copy Share Image
What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin, see… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“A shadow moved in the street below and my mind became focused on the movement. This shadow caught my attention because it… — Eli Wilde Copy Share Image
With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Murder, gambling, and beating up women doesn't illicit my sympathy, no matter what kind of language you dress it in.” — Albert Waitt Copy Share Image
Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible. — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
“[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. — Anonymous 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 field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“ No one is on this road , she thought. No one but us. Everyone knows this isn’t the place to be… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
“At that moment, I had apparently signed a contract in blood. We all know the power of spoken words; well, they are… — Mariia Manko Copy Share Image
“You can't live your life based on "what if" or "what might have been". Unless you're a Science Fiction Author, in which… — Ray Daley Copy Share Image
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“My attention was like cooking butter, not spreadable at the best of times. And when it was spreadable, it could destroy your… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
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