Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so:… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
“Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night.” — Michael Parker Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a… — Thom Powers Copy Share Image
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
“The blind faith in some half-assed conspiracy theories lines up with the logic of having to believe in something with no questions… — Asaad Almohammad Copy Share Image
Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a… — David Brin Copy Share Image
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
“The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when… — Amy Lignor Copy Share Image
“As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman… — Catherine Astolfo Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. — Khaled Hosseini 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
I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.' — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“Jesus honey, your husband ain’t dead, he’s in hiding.” He growled, watching her visibly flinch. - Jase Devlin” — Nina D'Angelo Copy Share Image
