I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“It is said that there is never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart. The shroud that… — Swati Kumar Copy Share Image
I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction,… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
“Everyday, God gives us the sun- and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.” — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to… — Janet Goodfriend Copy Share Image
Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be… — John Clute Copy Share Image
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like… — Joy Kogawa Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“I've been down by the stream collecting berries. Would you care for some?" I would, actually, but I don't want to relent… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or… — John Banville Copy Share Image
