I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about… — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing- reading stories about cabooses… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“A daughter, a wife, a grandson,' You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A bad leader wouldn't stress the importance of staying together to stop the enemy. You want peace? You can't forgive the enemy,… — Monet Polny Copy Share Image
Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie.… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“Who wants to go down the creepy, smelly staircase into God only knows what?" Brandon said. "I'm going," Dana said. "I'm with… — James L. Rubart Copy Share Image
We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But when the… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal. — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction. — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
“Charlee has my arm. She has my arm—my arm that’s rigid from pleasure, from her touch—in her little fingers. She holds my… — Rebecca Berto Copy Share Image
Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about. — Saul David Copy Share Image
For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
![“Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is…” quote by Amelie Nothomb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/70d/amelie-nothomb-1581_born_definitely-more-and-more-i-understand-th_1751287.jpg)
