“For a long time, Maurice rubbed his shaved head in his palm, until at last he looked up at his student. "Teo,… — Bryan M. Litfin Copy Share Image
Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“You'll have to learn to forgive," he said. "For if you don't, you know what will happen?" "What, Doctor?" I croaked, for… — Patrick McCabe Copy Share Image
“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility,… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative.” — Teri Louise Kelly Copy Share Image
The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
“Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.” — Brook Tesla Copy Share Image
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is more than just our collective dreams for a human race that reaches to the stars. In many ways, the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality.… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
“The magic ingredient in fiction is that special something that socks readers right in the gut and leaves them breathless with joy… — K.M. Weiland Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
