That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
“Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine. — Victoria Mahoney Copy Share Image
“It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen… — M. J. Chrisman Copy Share Image
“Don't let the whys have it. Don't let them take advantage of you. They'll crush your heart and steal your peace and… — Amy Matayo Copy Share Image
A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you view history as a backdrop, set-dressing or fiction, then 'Pride and Prejudice' is hugely entertaining. My reread saw the misery… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe,… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“You mean fiction?" I said. "I mean flesh-and-blood stories about what happens outside your head, Albert. Stories that touch your heart.” — Peggy Hesketh Copy Share Image
“Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself?...Or, to "be" himself?” — Milkweed L. Augustine Copy Share Image
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
“I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for… — J. M. Ledgard Copy Share Image
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
“I never meant for you to see that.” “Of course, you wouldn't want me to see that. It's much more difficult to… — Cricket Rohman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have… — Albert Einstein 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
What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they feel their own lack of education may be… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary… — April Lindner Copy Share Image
Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
