Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. — Carlton Mellick III Copy Share Image
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
“One word came to mind: pee-yew. Evan tried to place the odor; it wasn’t a heap of decayed garbage or that of… — H.B. Bolton Copy Share Image
But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t until I noticed two of the words on the sheet printed on a folder label. Sure enough, it was Williams’… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about 'Redshirts' getting onto the actual best-seller list, and doing as well as it has been doing,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“...and I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were… — Charlotte Rogan Copy Share Image
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“the presence of an old salt aboard the Elizabeth Seaman was profoundly reassuring. “Iron men in wooden boats,” they were called, as… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“That was when I saw their hate come out. They fought on the front lawn. Balloons and my birthday cake stood witness… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.” — Genie Frisbee Copy Share Image
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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