I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. — John Banville Copy Share Image
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Procuring the house in Ballister was a desperate bid for respect, for recognition, the ultimate gesture (or sacrifice, as it turned out)… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
“You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Thomas tilted his head towards me. "Don't mind him, he's drunk." "Does he work for you?" I asked him. "Who, Rick? No… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and… — Janet Leigh Copy Share Image
Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
“Maybe if you sleep where another person sleeps and do what that person does, then eventually you’ll start turning into that person.” — Jack Cheng Copy Share Image
My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and -- of course -- heart. This… — Nova Ren Suma Copy Share Image
I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible… — Celina Jade Copy Share Image
