Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“Animals do not respect their master's brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.” — Evan Meekins 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
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction. — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our… — Charles Shaar Murray Copy Share Image
“All the clues are there in front of us,hidden under a veil,we cannot get the clue by searching for,we have to search… — Arkopaul Das Copy Share Image
I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.” — Manoj Vaz Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd.… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer,… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
