I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life. — Sylvia Plachy Copy Share Image
“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron Copy Share Image
No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
“Faction” is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction.” — Martin Herman Copy Share Image
I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Do you think any of my brothers truly wish to die? The pretense is more insulting to my father’s cold body than… — Shen Tao Copy Share Image
“You know that euphemism, she’s expecting? It’s apt. The birth of a baby, so long as it’s healthy, is something to look… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial.… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about… — Courtney Giardina Copy Share Image
“When asked to "define the difference between fantasy and science fiction," I mouth and mumble and always end up talking about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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