“Taut, intelligent, and intense suspense that is deeply human.”—Mark Greaney, New York Times Bestselling Author of Gunmetal Gray “Exciting and well-layered....David Bell… — David J. Bell Copy Share Image
“He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget. — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
“Thanks to Dashiell Hammett. "He was thin, walked with a stick, and was the only private dick I knew who used the… — Thomas deKooning Copy Share Image
“Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“I distracted Herbert by pretending to trip and break a bone. Ethan darted around to the red golf cart with a cocky… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“We are monsters with good intentions, our instincts drive us but our passions devour us” — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lucy: I don't feel like talking about college. It increases my stress level. James: And increased stress levels lead to hair loss.… — Kristen Tracy Copy Share Image
“You're always begging things to love you as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“…Obviously, I have always wished I could remember what happened in that wood. The very few people who know about the whole… — Tana French Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When you live in Israel, there are restrictions which come from budget definitely. I came to the point where I had shot… — Dror Moreh Copy Share Image
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her” — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
“The only one everlasting love is the unrealized one. The love to this thing that you’d never had. Behind it is hidden… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
“I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need… — Ryohgo Narita Copy Share Image
I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction. — Pauline Chalamet Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
