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
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
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
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
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
Actually, I'm frequently described as the UK's only translator of Korean literature, but even that isn't accurate - Agnita Tennant is UK-based,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Just now he was on a mind-blowing adventure and it was rapidly spiralling out of control, and this is what he needed… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“You want this thing, this dragonsoul, for sentimental purposes. Because you can't let go of the glory days, or you long for… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You know that euphemism, she’s expecting? It’s apt. The birth of a baby, so long as it’s healthy, is something to look… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial.… — Pierre Bayard 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
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
“It must have really not liked me, but I can't imagine why, don't say anything Amelia." Amelia shrugged her shoulders, "It liked… — Otto Ray and Amelia Raht Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming… — David Housholder Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“Ray Bradbury’s entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.” — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“How charming. The king and his little princess knocking on my covens door.” Ursula sighed dramatically. “What do you insolent merfolks want… — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Mistakes in a work of fiction by a writer are new discoveries by the reader, that create a new ending for the… — kambiz mostofizadeh Copy Share Image
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle. — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
“You look good, Clearwater. Been working out?' Danie teased. 'He does, doesn't he?'Janelle agreed. 'This will totally work.' James' eyes darted back… — Brandi Salazar Copy Share Image
When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
