If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane 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
“As in the universe every atom has an effect, however minuscule, on every other atom, so that to pinch the fabric of… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouses, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. When people… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“You're only going to tire yourself out trying. Best to quit while you're ahead. That way, no one gets hurt.' 'How very… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“All writers struggle at some point with the problem of balance between authority and involvement, seduction and revelation. Specifically, beginning writers wonder… — Julie Checkoway Copy Share Image
My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I’ll test the station the day after tomorrow. If it’s good, we’ll make the jump the day after that. So three days.… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you that you don’t pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
“Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune… — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty,… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“Maybe not to us, but to humans. And Sonia… She is something entirely different now, and we have no idea how much… — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth'… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order,… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
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