“Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. our magic moment help us to change and sends us off… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“A large piece of lead floated out of Bobby head, followed by dark chunks of what could only be pieces of Bobby's… — Edison McDaniels Copy Share Image
The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.” — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films. — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri 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
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant… — Clint Van Winkle Copy Share Image
“Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“And yet it was also true that the tumor could not be removed by our doctor, and as a result of that… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoit is… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
“Bill nodded, but he didn’t look hopeful. “The H-H-Himalayans had a rih-hi-hitual to g-get rih-rid of i-i-it, but ih-it’s pretty gruh-gruh-gruesome.” They… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I think I found your vampire,” Andrew said, except this time he wasn’t so amused. However, Gabriella was, her smile huge as… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Let’s all try to be fearless, sometimes we wish for the most perfect of outcomes and we arrive at the most unforgettable.… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“ “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Again Gabe looked back at Michael, hoping he was about to step in, but all he did was give him a nod.… — Wendy Owens Copy Share Image
I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be. — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I've always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I've always… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place… — James Frey Copy Share Image
