Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media. — Robert Lutz Copy Share Image
“It is amazing how sharing of one’s intimate details can make human beings forget the formality of a relationship and bring them… — Ruchira Khanna Copy Share Image
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Writing to me is like being addicted to heroin… it’s hard and its mean, but you just can’t stop.” — F.D. Crandall Copy Share Image
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fiction writing is art. It therefore, has few mathematical or scientific limits to its evolution. The writer must always push forward, experiment,… — Ron Gavalik Copy Share Image
I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really… — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Underwater, bubbles erupted before my eyes as a swift hand snatched my arm and pulled me to the surface. I gasped for… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
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