“George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will,… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
“Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they're exacerbated and brought to… — Levi Grossman Copy Share Image
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them.… — Moon Bloodgood Copy Share Image
“Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age. She’d now… — Theasa Tuohy Copy Share Image
I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Me han dicho —a modo de crítica— que vivo en la luna. Les he dicho —a modo de crítica— que viven en… — Jaime Jaramillo Escobar Copy Share Image
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
“I didn't even notice that my shoes were full of mud by the time I reached the rocky shore. There was ragged… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin'. There's prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition,… — Eve Forward Villains By Necessity Copy Share Image
“Infatuation burns itself out,' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry--that can last a lifetime.” — Tess Callahan Copy Share Image
This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“I always thought of the stars like a handful of gems that God randomly tossed across the sky, saying, 'Here, go wherever… — Chelsea Vanderbeek Copy Share Image
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.” — Raymond A. Mar Copy Share Image
