One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. — Todd Strasser Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books,… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He's probably somewhere right now eating a Big-N-Tasty. The man has a coffee pot, a microwave, AND a mini refrigerator in his… — Piper Faust Copy Share Image
“people were rubbing their eyes and opening windows to stare out and ask questions, and getting dressed quickly as the first breath… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it. — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences -… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction.… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre… — Daniel Dae Kim Copy Share Image
In this strange world called Earth, I have run into dead things that seemed to be alive; and living ones that seemed… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“My people were extremely independent in both nature and outlook, this perhaps making a future clash between the Romans and us during… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction. — Will Self Copy Share Image
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all… — Ed Speleers Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There was an image in my mind—an expectation of what it would be like when I finally gave myself fully to a… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.' — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around… — Palmer Luckey Copy Share Image
“Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you that you don’t pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
Jeff VanderMeer's fiction has always been entrancingly, engagingly, enthusiastically weird, a winning combination of mimesis and the fantastical that privileges neither component:… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies. — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
