I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“She cries cuz shes lost and she doesn't even know what she wants. Her eyes grow cold as she begs the world… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… Writing is seduction. Good… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“IT IS SAID that time is unrelated to everything else. It goes on and on, unnoticing of our actions, our falls, our… — Alexia Purdy Copy Share Image
Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Allegedly, allegedly I say, the R.G.A. were extremely miffed of portrait painted of their monarch, King Tingaling XX, by Master. Portrait apparently,… — Elias Zapple Copy Share Image
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I think the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is less about “Did it really happen or was it made up?” than it… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It’s a very private moment when your heart breaks. I was thankful we were alone. I knew I couldn’t keep her, but… — S.G. Holster Copy Share Image
“The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely… — Thomas Gately Briody Copy Share Image
“One wrong social move---say---like hanging with the wrong person,” she said nastily, “Can make your life around here a living nightmare and… — T.L. Clarke Copy Share Image
The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.” — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction.… — Gary Lockwood Copy Share Image
“«“Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier.” “That can be gratifying,” mused the novelist. “But not all the time.”»” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“He is so delighted when we approach His throne with prayer. He loves to be remembered as the One who can heal… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“These creatures are not humanoid. They call themselves, the Fury, and the name is well deserved; they are a violent race. .” — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
“I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
“So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance. --Egwene al'Vere” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
