Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language,… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“The wise have the mental agility to anticipate and adjust to dire circumstances faster than most.” — Isham Cook Copy Share Image
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
[The Women's Room] is very much a white woman's piece of fiction, for sure. But for me, as a white woman, I… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?” — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
“It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen… — M. J. Chrisman Copy Share Image
'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done… — Martin Villeneuve Copy Share Image
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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