I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating. — Lily King Copy Share Image
Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction. — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right? — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
“She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.” — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Anyone who met him today would say, *Soldier. Fighter.* They would want him on their team. As a mother she was willing… — Lea Carpenter Copy Share Image
“Much more successful as an individual short story is Karl Schroeder’s ‘‘Jubilee’’, posted on Tor.com on February 26. This has at its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes.… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
