“Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“stories are better than fiction, so let’s hope for some real-life sequels.” — Katherine Ramsland Copy Share Image
“What child didn't wish to know if his bedtime stories were the stuff of fiction or of truth?” — V.E. Schwab Copy Share Image
Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on… — Peter David Copy Share Image
Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to… — Thomas Sweeney Copy Share Image
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouses, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. When people… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
“What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Allegedly, allegedly I say, the R.G.A. were extremely miffed of portrait painted of their monarch, King Tingaling XX, by Master. Portrait apparently,… — Elias Zapple Copy Share Image
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You're only going to tire yourself out trying. Best to quit while you're ahead. That way, no one gets hurt.' 'How very… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction. — Diana Ossana Copy Share Image
We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
“The wise have the mental agility to anticipate and adjust to dire circumstances faster than most.” — Isham Cook Copy Share Image
“Seseorang memang harus jadi munafik untuk merelakan orang yang disayanginya pergi.” — Laili Muttamimah Copy Share Image
I read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction. — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
Science fiction fans are great, but they just aren't the same as groupies. — Robert Picardo Copy Share Image
