Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and… — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
“I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back… — Lincoln Michel Copy Share Image
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things. — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“You never give such relationships a thought, To give a thought, to take a thought is a function of dissociation, distance. You… — Joyce Carol Oats Copy Share Image
“As the sun went down outside, the television screen started completely lighting up the room in obnoxiously bright colors at hyperactive speeds.… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Bergé’s yelling had attracted the attention of everyone in the Kibati hall: champagne flutes stopped halfway to heavily painted lips, eyes widened,… — Mark Zero Copy Share Image
[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story. — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image