I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all… — Ed Speleers Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There was an image in my mind—an expectation of what it would be like when I finally gave myself fully to a… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.' — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around… — Palmer Luckey Copy Share Image
“Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you that you don’t pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
Jeff VanderMeer's fiction has always been entrancingly, engagingly, enthusiastically weird, a winning combination of mimesis and the fantastical that privileges neither component:… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies. — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
“...we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work… — Ted Conover Copy Share Image
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or… — Janet Street-Porter Copy Share Image
I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
