That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cold November nights. It feels as if summer never happened. The beauty of setting sun, moon, and stars. Sailing to nowhere, but… — Fidelis O Mkparu Copy Share Image
“From Chloe's Secret--coming soon “What are you saying?” “I’m saying I want to have a relationship with you. I want to love… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. — Sunny Copy Share Image
I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters. — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.” — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I have yet to face Writer's Block and I don't believe I ever will. It is much more difficult for me to… — Kenneth J. Ester Copy Share Image
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible! — Arielle Ford Copy Share Image
I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
They say truth is stranger than fiction. If that's true, it's stranger than it would be if it wasn't. — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
“Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long… — Bonnie Ferrante Copy Share Image
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. He put his hands on her shoulders and drew her toward him.… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting,… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
