If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom may not be wise. Good fortune and bad luck do not exist. Freedom of choice is predetermined. Don’t believe anything… — L. Anthony Copy Share Image
“He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“One way to think about your life is as an extended free fall. An epiphany may help you see better as you… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Probably your biggest mistake was doing funk-dance to Unchained Melody,” the dog offered earnestly. “It’s a ballad, Alf, and to be honest,… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that… — Alfred Mele Copy Share Image
“Before we go on from here, I just want to say," he paused and took a step closer to me and reached… — S.G. Holster Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were a rich dark brown that were so deep, they reminded me of my sleepless nights, awake, staring into complete… — Cristina Martin Copy Share Image
With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events. — Diana Penty Copy Share Image
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is brilliant because you can totally exaggerate everything and not have to worry about legal issues. — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
“There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
“You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to… — John T. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
“By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom,… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
“The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out… — Yvonne Korshak Copy Share Image
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“How long has it been since I entered this blackness? Has it been days, months, or years? I’m stuck here with my… — Shari J. Ryan Copy Share Image
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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