It's fun to be able to invent fiction, but I like real stories, better. — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other. — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.” — Terry A O'Neal Copy Share Image
“I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting. — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I would love to take another stab at really smart, speculative sci-fi - my first was a bit of a stumble. I… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“I believe every story that is made in the mind of an author; has a trace in real world.A historical fiction completely… — Hamid Karima Copy Share Image
“I know when my life is over my writings will live on, perhaps in a story or maybe a sweet love song.… — Terri F. Williams Copy Share Image
I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“It was the sunlight coming through the window that woke Alex up; mother nature's own alarm clock rudely snapped him back to… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
