“The calming presence of the forest merged with the beating hearts of the human beings, each of whom was emanating the same… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction… — Caroline Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg… — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks — Mike Wells Copy Share Image
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
When fiction started on TV, the daily soap splurge happened and I knew that I would not get caught in a daily… — Javed Jaffrey Copy Share Image
Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Once out of the mailroom, I began to learn more about fear. As soon as fear begins to ascend, anatomically, from the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was the sunlight coming through the window that woke Alex up; mother nature's own alarm clock rudely snapped him back to… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Silver constellations sparkled across the velvet sky, revealing the mythical creatures that lingered in the valley of stars.” — Erin Forbes Copy Share Image
“No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can… — Ivan Stoikov Copy Share Image
“The Female Orgasm. The Big O. That elusive, reclusive Loch Ness of the labia. Does it prove the existence of God, or… — Kirstie Collins Brote Copy Share Image
