I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“I am taken to the police station and they place me in an interrogation room. I am there for about thirty minutes… — Jorge Ortiz Copy Share Image
“To write your dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams” — Rob Shepherd Copy Share Image
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a… — George Will Copy Share Image
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
“Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, “Diable! Diable!” And then chants… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979 — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really… — Sherry D. Ficklin Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense. — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
