“The best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. — Louis Auchincloss 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
Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point. — James Wan Copy Share Image
“Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore.” — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Lizzie Pepper is pure fiction! The character is pulled from tabloids. But I think we all look at celebrity marriages and invest… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Serena has spent her life fighting fiction the way good soldiers fight—intent on detecting its presence, harassing it, suppressing it—but I have… — Enrique de Hériz Copy Share Image
I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“What I’ve deemed as impossible is more the fiction I’ve created to avoid the failure I fear.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.” — Andri E. Elia Copy Share Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“You are thinking in human terms again, and forgetting Time is neither tick nor tock...” — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.” — David Housholder Copy Share Image
I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“What if all works of fiction were alternative realities and Authors glimpsed from them” — Justyn Simon Copy Share Image
