“My head is like some ridiculous barn packed full of stuff I want to write about,” she said. “Images, scenes, snatches of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives. — Ronald Sukenick Copy Share Image
“If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“Walking the plank is a Victorian fiction, and I will not have it on my ship!” — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“...but the air's flat and stale and the people half-hearted. There's nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or… — Eric Linklater Copy Share Image
“In the beginning we start with roses. The king’s flower right? Only they wilt in less than a day, especially when exposed… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You find photographs in so many different ways - from chance encounters, from looking at your negatives, from the way the light… — Sylvia Plachy Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the… — Stephen H. Segal Copy Share Image
“If a woman chooses to support her husband and become First Lady, I believe she must do so with the understanding that… — Venita Ellick Copy Share Image
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in,… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“If you're a ghost," he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
“My body is no longer mine. My soul dormant. I am once again, possessed. — Kia Carrington-Russell Copy Share Image
Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She paused in the doorway, tipping her head to consider Brittany, who only glared. "You're right. I think most girls don't look… — Wendy Knight Copy Share Image
I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
