That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
“I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I had finally become aware of how much I was capable of, how little I had to lose, and how deep into… — Celma Ribeiro Copy Share Image
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest… — George R.R Martin Copy Share Image
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
TV is changing for good. I'm glad that the leveling is happening when we are blending the fiction with real-life treatment. — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he… — Sheldon Friedman Copy Share Image
True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin… — Margot McCuaig Copy Share Image
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons,… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth.… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in… — David Denby Copy Share Image
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are… — Buddy Ebsen Copy Share Image
Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead.… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts… — Ian Leslie Copy Share Image
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
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