I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a… — Chris Stocking Copy Share Image
However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable,I'm going to kill myself,because I won't know what else to do” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
“The address given to me by Greta was written in such a way that the words looked like numbers, and the numbers… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and -- of course -- heart. This… — Nova Ren Suma Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art. — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
“The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . .… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to… — Janet Goodfriend Copy Share Image
Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta.… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. — James Rollins Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Because the truth is, fiction is one of the most effective time travel machines in the universe and always has been.” — Ann VanderMeer Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
