I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction.… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“it’s the way he uses language—which is nothing like the way fantasists used language before him. There’s no sense of nostalgia. There’s… — Joe Fassler Copy Share Image
“Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Wherever you are lacking, your obedience in working on that before your mate comes is vital.” — Angelo M. Swinson Copy Share Image
There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“...I tried to pretend that what we were enacting was nothing more than an intricate kind of handshake." ~Malcolm” — Kathleen Maher Copy Share Image
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Nature has distributed intelligence unequally, but imagination equally.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
