While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature -… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction. — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. — Carlton Mellick III Copy Share Image
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
“One word came to mind: pee-yew. Evan tried to place the odor; it wasn’t a heap of decayed garbage or that of… — H.B. Bolton Copy Share Image
But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
