A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction. — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's… — Watkin Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.' — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“If a wizard should take up residence in your garden, and requests food, you are obliged to feed him.” — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of… — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
“Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is,… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
“This is the tale of Magic Alex, the man who was everywhere: with Leonard Cohen in Hydra; in Crete with Joni Mitchell;… — Harry F. MacDonald Copy Share Image
It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“She died without us by her side, and now, we are left with the scars. In time, they may fade, but for… — Sophie Palmer Copy Share Image
“LOVE is the most incendiary element ever known, once it sparks the heart, the flame is inextinguishable.” — H.S. Rissam Copy Share Image
“And why is it all men think everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly drivel? Don't men have… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the… — Shomprakash Sinha Roy Copy Share Image
Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
