It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
Hans Zimmer and I considered 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows' to be a steampunk genre; our inspiration came from Sherlock's own… — Lorne Balfe Copy Share Image
In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible… — Celina Jade Copy Share Image
I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction.… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“I was hoping against hope he'd refill his Prozac so we could be in love again, but, sadly, that never happened.” — Piper Faust Copy Share Image
“If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
“What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character.… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
“Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.” — Ian Martin Copy Share Image
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“A small white rabbit with floppy ears and a twitching pink nose bounded out from the thick forest brush. Fingers twitching at… — Brandi Salazar Copy Share Image
SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions. The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in… — John Sladek Copy Share Image
The joy of great fiction is that it transports the reader to another world, where new characters live in otherwise unimaginable ways.… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
“Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be." Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The… — Isaac Solomon Copy Share Image
“If you want the extra-ordinary, you've got to be willing to forsake the ordinary' - Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's… — D.M. Lee Copy Share Image
I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I found myself intent on keeping the memories of the year to myself. [...] I didn't want to share them. Because I… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
In 'Nier Automata', the protagonists are androids, not humans, and that's very common in a Science Fiction story. — Yoko Taro Copy Share Image
“All the clues are there in front of us,hidden under a veil,we cannot get the clue by searching for,we have to search… — Arkopaul Das Copy Share Image
One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
“No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really… — Sherry D. Ficklin Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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