I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“As I lay there watching Robin sleep beside me, I realized that she was right all along. I didn’t need to live… — Sebastian Cole Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.” — Y.K. Raikou Copy Share Image
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“I am going to show you great and mighty things which no one has ever seen before.... I am going to take… — M. J. Chrisman Copy Share Image
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
“Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“You’re as plain as the nose on your face,” said Mr. Pennyworth. “And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The world is full of magic. You’ve just got to learn how to access it.” — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
“You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell… — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I think I can safely call 2012 average. Overall, it was a stronger year for nonfiction than fiction - a situation that… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“You want this thing, this dragonsoul, for sentimental purposes. Because you can't let go of the glory days, or you long for… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“But Addie knows too well now, knows that these stories are full of foolish humans doing foolish things, warning tales of gods… — V.E. Schwab Copy Share Image
“Running her fingers on the scales, she sighs. “I wonder what its like to be a human?” “Why won’t you just go… — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“There was something wild beneath the surface that his suit couldn't hide. He had the cocky arrogance of a man who broke… — Sarah Castille Copy Share Image
