A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“Placing his suitcase on the seat next to him, he unbuttoned his suit jacket, loosened up his necktie and removed his fedora.… — Peprah Boasiako Copy Share Image
“Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life,… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Jack gave her a fierce look. “Your mother gave up the best thing she had in her life. I know you miss… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Valerie Martin was my mentor in college and she liked fiction that said something. That made it essential to have something to… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in… — John Hyams Copy Share Image
“So...Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?" "Yes." "Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves.… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or… — Karin Tidbeck 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
A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
“Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
“Misery comes to miser; joy comes to wiser. (A Very Hot Cup of Tea, Empathy) Juvenile invites, youth tries, adult applies, and… — D.R. Mirror Copy Share Image
When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“..giving power to negative thoughts or fears was bringing ideas to life in physical world,idea in mind became emotion in heart,emotion turned… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“He had dreamt about a dark-haired foreign boy. This boy held the key to the undoing of their demise. He had carried… — Mary K. Savarese Copy Share Image
If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
“I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“Real life is generally very haphazard in its plotting, and I think a lot of people lament that, and turn to fiction… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
“There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long… — Bonnie Ferrante Copy Share Image
As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them.… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
