I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems. — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very… — Will Self Copy Share Image
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
“Peeta opens his mouth for the first bite without hesitation. He swallows, then frowns slightly. "They're very sweet." "Yes they're sugar berries.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The grass and the vines and the willow tree were all so lush and vividly green that he was slightly awed by… — Katie Lynn Johnson Copy Share Image
“I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“I’m in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.” — Moryah DeMott Copy Share Image
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis,… — John Clute Copy Share Image
