Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut. — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend… — George Murray Copy Share Image
As far as characters in fiction that I really admire - it's pretty strong to say you would wish that you had… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I like films about people who figured out what they believed and had the guts to act on it in a way… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Reality and fiction are really mixed up. The frontier between reality and fiction is tremendously porous and slippery. And in fact, when… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
