Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Demons exist,' he says simply, as if talking about the weather. 'They are real and they are dangerous. We hunt them when… — Bill Blais Copy Share Image
I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?' 'For fun?' 'Fun!' He… — John Fowles 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
I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Heavy is the head that holds the pen of creation. We construct these characters from nothing, molding them from our imaginations. We… — Jennifer A. Marsh Copy Share Image
I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single… — Piroska Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some. But was a… — Francis Ray Copy Share Image
“Everything is inspiration. If you look at the world as the incredible place it is, then each moment is a feast.” — J.D. Means Copy Share Image
We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there.… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play… — E.J. Stevens Copy Share Image
As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“ Mary fought a savage impulse to slam the door on the couple. But they were too interesting to ignore in the… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be… — John Clute Copy Share Image
