“I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“We want to believe that this life is longer than it is, but in the grand scheme of the universe our existence… — Paul S. Anderson Copy Share Image
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
“It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The… — Yvonne J. Medley Copy Share Image
I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you! — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
“I knew I would stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Visionary fiction” is a term we developed to distinguish science fiction that has relevance toward building new, freer worlds from the mainstream… — Adrienne Maree Brown Copy Share Image
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women.… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image
“I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend"… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful… — J. D. Sedding Copy Share Image
I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest… — David Budbill Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
“Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Silver constellations sparkled across the velvet sky, revealing the mythical creatures that lingered in the valley of stars.” — Erin Forbes Copy Share Image
I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“I never take out clients. It’s bad policy.” He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for… — Gabrielle Black Copy Share Image
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
“We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
