One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.” — Tom Hillman Copy Share Image
“My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.” — Michael Cox Copy Share Image
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. — Vinton Cerf 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
At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly -… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“Finishing my thoughts aloud meant saying how my dad had passed, and I had failed. How I had smoked joints and lay… — Rebecca Berto Copy Share Image
Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
“You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff,… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can… — Ivan Stoikov Copy Share Image
My first and last love will always be fiction. It's the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“I love you, Karla,” I said when we were alone again. “I loved you the first second I saw you. I think… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with. — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
“There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival". — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
