The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model… — Tom Segalstad Copy Share Image
Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“I know the next year will be trying, but you must keep faith." His eyes bore into mine, and I fear he… — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance , while a story must have meaning . The… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells'… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
“The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction.… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
