I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“The grass and the vines and the willow tree were all so lush and vividly green that he was slightly awed by… — Katie Lynn Johnson Copy Share Image
The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is… — Vance Palmer Copy Share Image
I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
“That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action. There weren't any more… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
“The rest, but a small part, is fiction, part of the mosaic of storytelling that a writer must employ to bring life… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
“Whatever binds us, ripples through us all. We might not all be shadow, but we are all human. I remind myself every… — Carmen Dominique Taxer Copy Share Image
We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“There is truth in stories. There is truth in one of your paintings, boy, or in a sunset or a couplet from… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
“I happen to believe that the deepest value of fiction is that, in its very fictiveness, it is the one arena where… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction is a collection of guerrilla bands each challenging the rights of the others to belong to the centrality. The band… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict -… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" -… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“One is almost tempted to say... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond… — Charles Coulson Copy Share Image
The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“How come when mortals want things, their only option is to make a deal with Hell and sell their soul? Why can’t… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
My favourite character in fiction was probably either James from 'James and the Giant Peach' or Ender from 'Ender's Game.' They were… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread. The hunters are hunted, white water runs red. The Gnawers will strike to extinguish the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature.… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
