I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.” — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
“The old are often forgotten. Life moves on without a care for those who wish to remain in the past. We tend… — Tami Egonu Copy Share Image
“There are two ways to ruin any chances of leading a happy life. The first is to chase a goal twenty-four hours… — Ali Sheikh Copy Share Image
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“My great-great grandfather and I were best of friends, although we never met. Fire and shipwreck orphan us – 140 years apart.… — Raji Singh Copy Share Image
My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
“I believe every story that is made in the mind of an author; has a trace in real world.A historical fiction completely… — Hamid Karima Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished… — Rahul Rampal Copy Share Image
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
