I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
There's a market for fiction based on financial services. People wanted me to write stories based on this sector. There's a gap… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes… — Lois Tilton Copy Share Image
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“I love you more than depth of the ocean, but I can't let you feel the pain of it... lines from Love… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
“. . .but he'd seen elite warriors go down in flames enough times to struggle with the sovereignty of God yet yield to it” — Ronie Kendig Copy Share Image
For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time."--Mea Brin, The Huntress” — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is… — Michel Butor Copy Share Image
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart. — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
