Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even… — Stefan Grabinski Copy Share Image
“I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?” Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Lizzie Pepper is pure fiction! The character is pulled from tabloids. But I think we all look at celebrity marriages and invest… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out… — Dave Robinson Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense.… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
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