Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to… — Shahla Khan Copy Share Image
“She stood panting as adrenalin fired up her muscles. Flipping open the safety catches on both of her laser pistols, she set… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
“Oh. C’mon, pretty girl. I like it when ya scream.” The leader breathed into my ear. I spat as good as I… — J.L. Clayton Copy Share Image
The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves.… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.” — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
“When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why can’t I received the same feeling in return?”… — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death. All these… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“You know there’s this gaping space between us, and if I leaned forward I’d grab Dex’s shirt without ever touching him. You… — Rebecca Berto Copy Share Image
“It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn't show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“Fiona grabbed Rick in her arms and sobbed, “Oh Rick, this song drives me crazy. I can’t stop myself when you’re around… — Rebecca Harlem Copy Share Image
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me… — Nanci Griffith Copy Share Image
Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
“I’d always hated cocktail parties. And this one was worse than most. Overdressed pseudo–people smiled plastic smiles, told one–upmanship stories with phony… — Walt Shiel Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.” — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“My attention was like cooking butter, not spreadable at the best of times. And when it was spreadable, it could destroy your… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard,… — Kenneth Bonert Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
“I was murdered. Even though my heart continued to beat, I was very much deceased. All faded to black” — M.C. Webb Copy Share Image
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