One day I decided to move towards documentaries or to move to more directing in documentaries at this point in my career.… — Dror Moreh Copy Share Image
The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact.… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Of course it's possible for political essays to be artful. I just want to call into question the dominance of content over… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
“My new story collection won’t please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
“Next morning, we drank endless cups of coffee in the airport restaurant…Suddenly wide-eyed, she stared past me: “Good grief, some of the… — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
“Father, what are you to do now?” Triton’s sneer grew scarier. “She broke the law.” turning away from the terrified faces of… — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
“ “Yes, well, I thought you should see it. The cover page is in Arabic scribblin’, but the next hundred-plus pages are… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
“Ariel: “Eric!” Eric: “Do not sing me back to shore! Not until you are standing on two feet!” — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
