What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction:… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a… — Joseph Conrad 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
“A brave new future had been charted, and none of them knew where it was going to lead. From my upcoming novel,Frontiers,… — Jeff W. Horton Copy Share Image
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Lyly placed her fingers over Patrick’s mouth. “Hush,” she whispered. “It was because of me and my family that you suffered-” Patrick’s… — Mary K. Savarese Copy Share Image
I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
“An elegantly crafted novel, "The Reluctant First Lady" clearly documents author Venita Ellick as an exceptionally accomplished writer able to skillfully weave… — Midwest Book Review August 2013 Copy Share Image
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Fix me," I commanded him. "This thing, what I've done- there's something wrong with me, Noah. Fix it." Noah's expression broke my… — Michelle Hodkin The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Copy Share Image
“There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new… — Kristine Grayson Copy Share Image
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century was the Science Fiction Century. Science fiction affected everything, and we now live in a science fiction world.” — Charles N. Brown Copy Share Image
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form. — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. — Bill Kovach Copy Share Image
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
What I feel like science fiction fans respond to is just people trying to hit them with something new, something they haven't… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
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