Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling.… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me… — Hannah Blatchford Copy Share Image
I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
“People vote for whom they believe will be the best president and representative for our country. The First Lady is not on… — Venita Ellick Copy Share Image
“Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.” — Tom Hillman Copy Share Image
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict -… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told. — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons,… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
“Much later that night, I thought the door opened and a man came into the bedroom. He was leaning on a stick.… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“What could I do in the country, Frank? You want me to be a milkmaid or something. No, I’ll take my chances… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries. — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often… — T.C. Boyle 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
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Suddenly William loomed over him, scowling, snarling and bloody, his suit dirt-stained and ripped. “Do you know. How many strands. Of hair… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“So if I asked you to wear my skirt and juggle my high heels, you would?” I joked. I could only see… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
