I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.” — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story! — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
“A couple hours went by, and the storm began to turn back to the sea. The dark clouds rolled away, leaving white,… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Everyone asks me how I got started into writing. I wish I had some cool story to tell, but the truth is… — Jason Faris Copy Share Image
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
