Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Since I was really little, I've just always had an obsession with, not just science fiction, but science and space. And also… — Moby Copy Share Image
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature -… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll… — Kia Carrington-Russell Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe they are big. Maybe… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. It was not called… — Claudia Putnam Copy Share Image
“Burn wounds always elicited pain more terrible than anything else he had ever endured. He didn’t relish the idea of forcing himself… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Death was a leech; no matter which side of the spectrum you were on, either dead or alive, it fed. It either… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue?… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff. — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a… — Thom Powers Copy Share Image
And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“If only I could freeze this moment, this feeling, because right now, nothing else mattered. I was f***ing flying.” — Tara Kelly Copy Share Image
But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“He heard a furious rustling, a disturbance in the trees. He followed Zander’s final glance and saw the angel frozen in mid-air,… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
