One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for… — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
“Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.' 'You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.' 'Before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“This book is a work of fiction that was given to a pirate after it was retrieved from the future by exotically… — James Marshall Copy Share Image
“There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Oh you're one of those people are you? The people who ask God for something and when they get it, they tell… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers… — S.A. Reid Copy Share Image
I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.' — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
“I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished… — Rahul Rampal Copy Share Image
A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality.” — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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