When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“...there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled… — Sveva Casati Modignani Copy Share Image
Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“I also had a father, who had loved for a long time without being nearby. How many others were walking around and… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
"I thought Indians built fires with fiction." .... "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best… — Harold Acton Copy Share Image
In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
“From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: In the torrential downpour with water swirling that threatened to pull her down, she didn’t see… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as… — Paul Louis Couchoud Copy Share Image
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
