I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“It was the sunlight coming through the window that woke Alex up; mother nature's own alarm clock rudely snapped him back to… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A… — Leïla Slimani Copy Share Image
My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality.” — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished… — Rahul Rampal Copy Share Image
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
“He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his… — Haidji Copy Share Image
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
