“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.” — James Van Pelt Copy Share Image
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of… — Alastair Bruce Copy Share Image
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction… — Saul David 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
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“[Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given young writers -- namely, that… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Remy glanced up and found herself staring into Logan’s eyes. She was lost to his stare and forgot that anyone else was… — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
“He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty… — Yvonne Korshak Copy Share Image
“Maryanne Burkhard and I have set up a B W Wrighthard profile on Goodreads. If any of you would like to friend… — B W Wrighthard Copy Share Image
Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
Jeff VanderMeer's fiction has always been entrancingly, engagingly, enthusiastically weird, a winning combination of mimesis and the fantastical that privileges neither component:… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. — Mae West Copy Share Image
I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.' — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,” — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know. — Joel Gretsch Copy Share Image
“If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?” — Venita Ellick Copy Share Image
“our destinies are intertwined like the stems of ivy on an oak tree.” — Chris Tinniswood Copy Share Image
Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. -Paul Theroux, novelist (b. 1941)” — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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