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
“It wasn't uncommon to hear rationalizations of this sort--the longing to transform bad deeds into good ones. No one ever wanted to… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.” — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different. — Neal Stephenson 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
There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name… — Douglas Weissman Copy Share Image
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast, it’s no good living in the fucking past.” — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a… — Suzanne Lee Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction. — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Falconers,” she continued, sternly. “Pull yourselves together. People are dying. The police don’t have the family history to solve murders forty years… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
