“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic… — Rene Folsom Copy Share Image
When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?” “You whacked me on the head with a ball!” “You deserved… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
“I really don't know how he does it. How he can take any situation and seduce its pants off. It's a talent… — Kathey Gray Copy Share Image
All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is… — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
“Though books were potentially harmful, novels were all the more dangerous. The path of fiction could easily mislead you into the cosmos… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Don't worry I won't embarrass you. I'm just going to check out his friends. Maybe his grades and definitely his track record… — Kaitlin Scott Copy Share Image
What I like about mixing fiction and non-fiction is being able to fully explore an idea without being bound by genre. If… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked.… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
“A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and… — Robin Schone Copy Share Image
“The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“You have seven writers in your basement?” Donald nods, signing, “They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are. — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
“An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece.… — Joseph Telushkin Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
“MISS PRISM: Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us. CECILY: Yes, but it usually chronicles… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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