“A related question is where in time to begin. Should you begin far back in a character's past and move forward, or… — Julie Checkoway Copy Share Image
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film,… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“This is a work of fiction, which, contrary to what any reader paying attention to recent events might assume, I began writing… — Joy Jordan-Lake Copy Share Image
“The tangible and intangible collide to cast a spell. But can a person or thing ever be stripped naked? Can we ever… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Not everyone can be rich,' Peter went on. 'Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing to be scared of, right Akhol?” He said nothing as he stepped toward the rushing water that rolled around a… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Fiction is most effective when its themes are unspoken. An ideal fiction has a kind of thematic ghostliness, whereby the novel marks… — James Wood Copy Share Image
Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
“I was thinking that preparing to meet someone you don’t think you’ll like is a lot like pulling a tooth you do… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
“To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
“They were going to expel me. Mom convinced them not to... and got them to apologize," Fern said, almost embarrassed. Really?" Eddie… — Jennifer Anne Kogler Copy Share Image
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
