“I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
“Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself?...Or, to "be" himself?” — Milkweed L. Augustine Copy Share Image
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“You mean fiction?" I said. "I mean flesh-and-blood stories about what happens outside your head, Albert. Stories that touch your heart.” — Peggy Hesketh Copy Share Image
“It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen… — M. J. Chrisman Copy Share Image
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“There was clairvoyance to their words and a tenderness in their inflections that instilled even in the most cynical of male hearts… — Eric Monsky Copy Share Image
“A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause Our art's official and only partially artificial And our… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to… — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on… — Peter David Copy Share Image
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“We're in a strange relationship with our fiction, you see. Sometimes we fear it's taking us over, sometimes we beg to be… — Warren Ellis Planetary Vol. 2 The Fourth Man Copy Share Image
“I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!' 'And I’ve tried living without you, and it… — J.L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd.… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
“Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn.… — Sara Pascoe 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
“He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out… — Jeff Probst Copy Share Image
When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“The term 'Erotic Fiction' is interesting to me. The 'Fiction' part. Cuz right now somewhere in the world it's happening just as… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars'… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
“I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they… — Christopher Harris Copy Share Image
