Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had… — John Updike Copy Share Image
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“I would rather avoid disaster than take it out for dinner and a movie. - Chynna Lennox ” — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
