“Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night.” — Michael Parker Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
“It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin. — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“If I'd had enough breath, I would have screamed, both at the sensation and at the sheer pettiness of the bastard who… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman… — Catherine Astolfo Copy Share Image
I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth… — Wayne Martindale Copy Share Image
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Well, I would tell Danny. I'd probably edit for Josh. That is if there was anything worth editing. “Joshua Roberts, you had… — Kaitlin Scott Copy Share Image
What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
“It seemed to us that the fantastic can be, can do, so much more than its detractors assume: it can illuminate the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.” — Nicholas Dettmann Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
“Sci-Fi, Space-Travel, Space-Opera, Chance-Encounters, Adventure-Reads, Speculative-Fiction, Book-Quotes” — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd. — Allen Covert Copy Share Image
“Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.” — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“The best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
