Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human… — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high.… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
One day at a time of midnight. Vicious raining and I wasn't fine. She called me in this terrible night. I've to… — Junaid Altaf Copy Share Image
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest… — George R.R Martin Copy Share Image
What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon? — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
I had a lot of really emo stories as a kid. I wrote a lot of fan fiction. — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired,… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked,… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel.… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Villalobos had always been eager to work in law enforcement. When he was in high school, he assembled a group of boys… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely… — Linda Leigh hargrove Copy Share Image
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting. — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“Her unexpected outburst rocked Flaminius to his core. Suddenly, she didn't seem so angelic. Her face twisted with rage; veins in her… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm pretty instinctual when I write, and I really like to get to a point where I'm writing where I don't know… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary,… — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
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