Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.” — Nicholas Dettmann Copy Share Image
Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“My mother picked me up in her arms, touching my checks comforting my distress. I stared into her eyes and held her… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“And yet—and yet—she enchants me, intrigues me, draws me like sin to hellfire. The infernal regions in the hollow between her breasts,… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these… — Kyra Zagorsky Copy Share Image
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny -… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony… — Ann McLane Kuster Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction. — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything. — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
“They were going to expel me. Mom convinced them not to... and got them to apologize," Fern said, almost embarrassed. Really?" Eddie… — Jennifer Anne Kogler Copy Share Image
The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment. — Stanley Ellin Copy Share Image