“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love… — Sarah Swainson Copy Share Image
“Not everyone can be rich,' Peter went on. 'Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills… — megan abbott Copy Share Image
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“How often do you ignore a dream, dismiss it as fantasy and then see echoes of the dream around you the following… — Samantha Robertson Copy Share Image
I think that is one of the things that is beautiful about fiction and that you can do through drama. If I… — Liza Johnson Copy Share Image
I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
“I stomp back to my room. Queen Titania is not marrying Prince Holden.” — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
