“Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end of the day… — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
A lot of science fiction is very accessible and very readable, but a lot of people are justifiably put off by the… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“She stared at the faded tile floor before her feet, but knew his every step around her small kitchen. When Martin touched… — Kim Bongiorno Copy Share Image
Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just… — Emma Caulfield Copy Share Image
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Some acts of worldbuilding in fiction instantiate a milieu that is so culturally odd and exotic, so displaced from the audience's consensus… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Outside of the usual bar or nightclub, it's not every day that I get a drink bought for me-at least not by… — Jason Leclerc Copy Share Image
“Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt… — David Sloma Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph… — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
“It doesn't take a wizard to figure out the last thing a girl should do is go running hundreds of miles away… — Lisa Patton Copy Share Image
I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They stared into the distance as though they were being absorbed into an alternate space-time reality. Perhaps they were. But probably they… — Amy Tanner Copy Share Image
The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences -… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
