“There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.” — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking),… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for… — Livia Bitton-Jackson Copy Share Image
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It was like walking into another world. While the mansion was bright, warm, comfy and filled with sound and color, the outside… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion, — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“A true leader is not meant to be greeted with unanimous praise by his people. A leader is meant to be questioned,… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday,… — David Gerrold 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
“My father was a patient father. He was so patient that when he once saw a sign that read ‘Patient Entrance’ at… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The things that scare us never look as daunting if you change the way you look at them.” — G.J. Walker-Smith Copy Share Image
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
“This ain't beauty,' Rook said, and spat savagely- grossly- downwind. "Just some nasty shadows masquerading.” — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a character’s predicament, but never to solve his problems.” — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Whatever binds us, ripples through us all. We might not all be shadow, but we are all human. I remind myself every… — Carmen Dominique Taxer Copy Share Image
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“If you decide to war with us, you will fail and suffer an eternity of misery,” he informed, his tone steady and… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“That was another thing about boys: No one assumed the blew a gasket for any reason other than they were just really… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
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