Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“The truth is, time marches on and you have two choices: You move forward, come what may, and you experience all the… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon… — Luis von Ahn 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
The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
“Sin says, "Do you think that people get married with aspirations to divorce? Do you think that people try drugs with the… — Stephen and Tiffany Domena Copy Share Image
“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite… — John Hume Copy Share Image
“You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,” shrieked his hellish voice. Whether the beast was a man in a mask… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“It's just like an alcoholic to think he's doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong.” — Michele W. Miller Copy Share Image
“Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true… — Brad Linaweaver Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“Amelia nodded her head, "That makes perfect sense." "No is doesn't," jeered Otto. "Yes, it does,” sighed Amelia. "Don't you ever remember… — Monet Polny Copy Share Image
Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
“It made a romantic tale. The young rouge, cheating death, returning to his grieving lover. But in reality? Ashyn had always known… — Kelly Armstrong Copy Share Image
My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“Not much of a childhood, Cass. When did you get to play?” With a frown, she said, “I played.” “You took apart… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
“Stallions," Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl. - DANIEL'S ESPERANZA” — Veronica Randolph Batterson Copy Share Image
It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions. — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I… — William James Copy Share Image
Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
“It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible", taking them out of… — Mario Vargas Llosa 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
I want to do something like 'Stranger than Fiction,' like a Native version of 'Stranger than Fiction.' That's one that comes to… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“American houses...' she said, peering over her right shoulder and down the street. 'They always seem to believe that nobody ever loses… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
