“And in a land accustomed to so much anguish, Chase tried to be careful with words. His soccer moms began assigning nicknames… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth...these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics...these things have always held… — Helen Pilinovsky Copy Share Image
“Would the man in the cabin have come after them? Would he have sent someone else? Or would he have never even… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Ida tried not to sigh. “What do you think of your husband?” he asked. “He was rather short,” Ida said without thinking.… — Carmen Dominique Taxer Copy Share Image
I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good.… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
“she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities,… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It didn’t belong to anything and nothing belonged to it. It searched for eternities trying to find a host… a carrier… a… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“She cries cuz shes lost and she doesn't even know what she wants. Her eyes grow cold as she begs the world… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
