Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
“There are so many wild animals on the property. It makes the ashram Noah’s Arkish. All the wildlife is intact; watching the… — Tom Hillman Copy Share Image
“That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“I thought if only we could go on and meet again, shy as strangers.” — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Every step taken is the first of a new journey. Its up to me if I choose to contine walking or I… — Kia Carrington-Russell Copy Share Image
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“...one had to expect very little—almost nothing—from life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A lot of times in my short fiction there isn't much dramatized scene - there are a lot of short, interconnected bits,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
“Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted. Harold Crick: What is wrong with you?… — Zach Helm Copy Share Image
'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
“La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie." ("Life resembles a novel more often than… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
One day I decided to move towards documentaries or to move to more directing in documentaries at this point in my career.… — Dror Moreh Copy Share Image
The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact.… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Of course it's possible for political essays to be artful. I just want to call into question the dominance of content over… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
“My new story collection won’t please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
“Next morning, we drank endless cups of coffee in the airport restaurant…Suddenly wide-eyed, she stared past me: “Good grief, some of the… — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
