“Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“Raven shook her head more violently and opened her mouth, a loud shriek filled the room and Amari realised what was about… — Sian B. Claven Copy Share Image
“Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words 'competent,' 'finished,' 'problem-free,' fiction over which Writing-Program pre- and proscriptions loom… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“George lay on his bed, wide awake despite the early hour, imagining over and over Jeffrey’s demise. He didn’t feel guilty. Jeffrey… — Matt Francis Copy Share Image
A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another… — Vija Celmins Copy Share Image
Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Jules lips quivered, and I feared she was about to cry. Then she asked, “He bit off more than he could chew,… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“I, SINUHE, the son of Senmut and of his wife Kipa, write this. I do not write it to the glory of… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
“She noticed the lemony yellow light in her dream and heard nothing of her alarm clock so continued to dream and dreamt… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
How can quality crime fiction not be produced with available subject matters as the Industrial Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the creation of… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“I didn't even notice that my shoes were full of mud by the time I reached the rocky shore. There was ragged… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all… — Stephen R. Bissette Copy Share Image
I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
“Which is probably one of the reasons those of us who love contemporary fiction love it as we do. We’re alone with… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
“the presence of an old salt aboard the Elizabeth Seaman was profoundly reassuring. “Iron men in wooden boats,” they were called, as… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg… — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
Essentially, you know, one of the great advantages of working in science fiction is it does give you an opportunity to talk… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
![“In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind…” quote by William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60c/william-gibson-642_1960s_in-effect-i-grew-up-in-a-sort-of-timewar_2191625.jpg)
![“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won’t survive the ordeal.” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/225/flannery-o-connor-639_books_people-without-hope-do-not-write-novels_903687.jpg)
![“I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are we talking about? You know, it's not interesting. I don't like Lord of the Rings. Even Star Wars, for me, I don't understand this kind of story. But…” quote by Jean-Pierre Jeunet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ab5/jean-pierre-jeunet-18813_aliens_i-love-science-fiction-but-i-don-t-like_2103079.jpg)
![“Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot…” quote by Christine Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ac0/christine-jennings-20527_book_utopian-fiction-is-really-boring-i-had-t_68118.jpg)
