There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“Dawn cackles as she guides me through the all-glass porch. Thinner, paler Reina shuffles about behind Dawn, watching as I slip my… — Amaya Ellman Copy Share Image
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Xavier was like some sort of sex drug that numbed my mind and clouded it. He made me stupid.” — Kathey Gray Copy Share Image
I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.” — Genie Frisbee Copy Share Image
Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
“Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.” — R.S. Gompertz Copy Share Image
There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
“A powerfully imagined event can evoke the same emotions as a real event. Few artists would contradict this, and yet there no… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Although this man spoke pure fluent ghetto, she liked his spirit. She could tell he was attracted to her, and that he… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
“He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction. — Diana Ossana Copy Share Image
“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Arvid reste sig för att gå. —Nej, sitt! –sitt!, sitt!—. Om någon hund varit närvarande, skulle han genast suttit.” // “Arvid se… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power. — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read. — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.” — Lawrence Thornton Copy Share Image
In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life. — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Her anger, so useful just moments before, was getting the better of her now. She could hear it; she was too loud.… — Brian Staveley Copy Share Image
