Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“What would you suggest?” one of the Italian officials asked. “We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator,” Joseph chimed… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having… — Jack Tate Copy Share Image
“It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are… — T Cooper Copy Share Image
“I did the only thing I could. I said the dumbest thing any man has ever said to a woman, “Yeah, it’s… — Amanda Hamm Copy Share Image
“From my new WIP, Behind the Fan. “Come with me.” His breath is warm; his lips lightly touch her ear, it gives… — Caroline Walken Copy Share Image
Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into the heart of the music they knew… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Rissa Kerguelen by F. M. Busby. I read this now largely forgotten science fiction book at about the time I was starting… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works… — Robert J. Sawyer 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
I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart… — Jennifer Faye Copy Share Image
“For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them,… — The Inkslinger Copy Share Image
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“If I'd had enough breath, I would have screamed, both at the sensation and at the sheer pettiness of the bastard who… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman… — Catherine Astolfo Copy Share Image
“It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth… — Wayne Martindale Copy Share Image
I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay… — K Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
