I completely don't enjoy sci-fi. I have to say that's a genre I'm deeply, deeply not into. I can't - I'm so… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably,… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive;… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“They are my men and this ship my responsibility. I vowed no woman would ever alter my path. Yet I kept them… — Saskia Walker Copy Share Image
“The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Arthur C. Clark wrote: Science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something… — James M. Corkill Copy Share Image
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn’t moved, but she… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to… — Gemma Halliday Copy Share Image
In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young… — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t until I noticed two of the words on the sheet printed on a folder label. Sure enough, it was Williams’… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
“What if the killer was here? He or she could be standing behind Laurel at this very moment. Laurel shivered again. She… — Tayler Marie Brooks Copy Share Image
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