I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Everything about him screamed in warning, “Caution: dangerous terrain ahead.” A warning that both intrigued and provoked her proceed-at-your-own-risk nature.” — Lotchie Burton Copy Share Image
“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
“He is so delighted when we approach His throne with prayer. He loves to be remembered as the One who can heal… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry to tell you that another Dani was found wandering around the time station in our building, confused and disoriented.” — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
