I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Fiction tends to spread farther than nonfiction - and as a filmmaker, it's important to be cognizant of not perpetuating the same… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste,” I said.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I thought Indians built fires with fiction." … "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the yarns of the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“May was the best person I ever knew… She understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be.… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Author's Note This is not so much an author's note as an author's reminder of what was printed in small type a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained.… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them. — Rick Baker Copy Share Image
“Everyone thought she was so confident and together, but that was really a mask she wore to protect herself. The old adage… — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are lots of great characters in fiction who viewers and readers have engaged with that behave badly. Great characters can be… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from… — Annie Murphy Paul Copy Share Image
“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all… — Rand Miller Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you've ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it's not a… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
“For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? ” — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
