We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Often I felt like two people. One went into the world and did the living for the other, who was stuck in… — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails. — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff,… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“There was something wild beneath the surface that his suit couldn't hide. He had the cocky arrogance of a man who broke… — Sarah Castille Copy Share Image
To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance , while a story must have meaning . The… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I touched his face. "Look," I said. "I love you more than everything else in the world combined. Isn't that enough?" "Yes,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction." — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“If a woman chooses to support her husband and become First Lady, I believe she must do so with the understanding that… — Venita Ellick Copy Share Image
Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
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