All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them.… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction… — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not… — Alfred Bertram Guthrie Copy Share Image
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouses, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. When people… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there.… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels… — James Wolcott 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
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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“Everything about him screamed in warning, “Caution: dangerous terrain ahead.” A warning that both intrigued and provoked her proceed-at-your-own-risk nature.” — Lotchie Burton Copy Share Image
“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
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We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
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