I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I've always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I've always… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I've always liked science fiction as a way of commenting on ourselves and it's wrong that it is seen as less valid… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of… — Philip J. Klass Copy Share Image
With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise -… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
“The night came on as swift and soft as a velvet dream. I was scrunched down in the front seat of my… — Jim Cherry Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know… — Dick Peterson Copy Share Image
In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Ragna hesitated. She had known this moment would come. “My Lady, your son Alberon is the father of our child and he… — Robert Reid Copy Share Image
The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
“When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit… — Veronica Randolph Batterson Copy Share Image
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Someday or the other... we will find what we are looking for, or maybe we won't, maybe we will find something much… — Adbhut Copy Share Image
“These stories are my weapon. If I can write a book that grips someone by the heart and then opens their eyes… — Eric N. Bentley Copy Share Image
“Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“And I feel certain that you will, because I've come to take it away. I'm from the furniture shop, and the bed… — George Sheffield Copy Share Image
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Like I’ve told you before, Beverly, I don’t care where we live as long as we’re together.” Vance... "The Elder Effect” — D. L. Given Copy Share Image
I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way. — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
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