That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I was 45 when I wrote most of this book [Hungry Heart ], at what felt like a halfway point in my… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You can’t blame yourself for what Socrates did. Those birds came because he wanted them to come, at least a part of… — Ken Goldman Copy Share Image
I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine. — Victoria Mahoney Copy Share Image
“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that… — Kristine Grayson Copy Share Image
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
“I never meant for you to see that.” “Of course, you wouldn't want me to see that. It's much more difficult to… — Cricket Rohman Copy Share Image
If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for… — J. M. Ledgard Copy Share Image
I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
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