“...we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work… — Ted Conover Copy Share Image
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage. — Norman Spinrad 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
I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because… — Marcel Proust 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
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena’s recital. But… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Beneath Albright’s office, the colliery sprawled across the hillside, red brick buildings scattered as though hurled from a great height, a hotchpotch… — Kit Habianic Copy Share Image
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't.… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
“The days I’d passed with my mom before she died were still there, it seemed, seared into the corners of my heart.… — banana yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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