A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“If you don’t know the fantasy life of a country, it’s hard to write fiction about it.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
One of the many falsities of fiction that we accept quite happily is the non-ageing of characters as they appear across series… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? -… — Barbara Falkenrath Copy Share Image
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to… — Philip French Copy Share Image
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“This world must differ from the given in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Parables are works of art, specifically, works of short fiction. They are intricately constructed and complex in their intent. In some ways,… — Thomas Nelson Publishers Copy Share Image
“The thought that the Mayan culture managed to calculate the Earth’s passing through the plane of the Milky Way galaxy never failed… — Jody Summers Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
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