People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, 'If no one is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Death was a leech; no matter which side of the spectrum you were on, either dead or alive, it fed. It either… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff. — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue?… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
“all writers, given adequate technique—technique that communicates—can stir our interest in their special subject matter, since at heart all fiction treats, directly… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the “physical pleasure of turning actual pages”… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts… — KGE Konkel Copy Share Image
Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another… — Andrew Niccol Copy Share Image
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a… — Thom Powers Copy Share Image
There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
“When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“If only I could freeze this moment, this feeling, because right now, nothing else mattered. I was f***ing flying.” — Tara Kelly Copy Share Image
But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“He heard a furious rustling, a disturbance in the trees. He followed Zander’s final glance and saw the angel frozen in mid-air,… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
