“If we believe faeries are real, it brings a sense of magic to our very boring, difficult, everyday lives. It gives us… — Daley Downing Copy Share Image
“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Listen to me you piece of shit, if you ever give the press information about me, my parents or even breathe a… — Nina D'Angelo Copy Share Image
“Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?” — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I got expelled from the public library for putting all the 'Women's Rights' books in the fiction section. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There'd always been an understanding between Havemercy and me; that we'd kill any man who came between us. I was holding up… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK. — Michael Dorn Copy Share Image
