My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when… — Amy Lignor Copy Share Image
In no other genre can you be believable as an immortal character. I love sci-fi for that, so yeah - I'm a… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
“Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being.” — Joe Mynhardt Copy Share Image
I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Much more successful as an individual short story is Karl Schroeder’s ‘‘Jubilee’’, posted on Tor.com on February 26. This has at its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes.… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“When you mix Science Fiction with Fantasy you don't have a pure genre, the two are, to a professional separate genres. I… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
“All history is fictionalised narration of an opinion and good authors keep coming up with new opinions on existing narrations. Those who… — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“The Female Orgasm. The Big O. That elusive, reclusive Loch Ness of the labia. Does it prove the existence of God, or… — Kirstie Collins Brote Copy Share Image
“I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12. — Mick Garris Copy Share Image
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“My most educated analysis, with all means of science and technology in mind, is that it’s magic,” Alex said. “There’s no other… — Chris Colfer The Land of Stories Copy Share Image
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The juggernaut that is steampunk, like Dr. Loveless's giant mechanical spider in the 1999 film version of 'The Wild, Wild West,' seems… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Short fiction and the novel, nonfiction and fiction, electronic texts and books - these are not opposites. One need not destroy the… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction:… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
