Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems. — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the… — Todd Crawshaw Copy Share Image
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“But why this obsession with what's actually true, the real, all that? Can't you accept that our lives are always part fiction?” — Bhaskar Ghose Copy Share Image
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are… — Richard Lewis Copy Share Image
“She gave him a brief, mysterious smile. “You were watching me. I felt you before I saw you.” So? This is a… — Vincent Panettiere Copy Share Image
“And yet—and yet—she enchants me, intrigues me, draws me like sin to hellfire. The infernal regions in the hollow between her breasts,… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“When fiction collides with reality, it's time to get fired up. There are great stories being generated out there by real events… — Gregory S. Lamb Copy Share Image
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our… — Val Edward Simone Copy Share Image
The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.” — Raymond A. Mar Copy Share Image
Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
“Across his forehead was stamped the word WORTHLESS. How ironic. Exactly what someone might find stamped on his own forehead if they… — James L. Rubart Copy Share Image
I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts. — Nina Hagen Copy Share Image
I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it… — Drew Roy Copy Share Image
The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony… — Ann McLane Kuster Copy Share Image
“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration,… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue… — Colleen McCarty Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
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