I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us. — Tom Bailey Copy Share Image
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“The first book to use the term ‘science fiction’ in the title was also a vintage paperback, an anthology called The Pocket… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“Thanks to Dashiell Hammett. "He was thin, walked with a stick, and was the only private dick I knew who used the… — Thomas deKooning Copy Share Image
“There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“..giving power to negative thoughts or fears was bringing ideas to life in physical world,idea in mind became emotion in heart,emotion turned… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“Misery comes to miser; joy comes to wiser. (A Very Hot Cup of Tea, Empathy) Juvenile invites, youth tries, adult applies, and… — D.R. Mirror Copy Share Image
When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long… — Bonnie Ferrante Copy Share Image
