The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.” — John Green Copy Share Image
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one.” — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
“I often tell my students that fiction is about desire in one way or another. The older I get, the more I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the… — David Bazan Copy Share Image
Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it. — John Updike Copy Share Image
At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings,… — Blake Morrison Copy Share Image
I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to write my… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
