Romance is the most read genre of fiction in the world - but people always undermine it. — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it! — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
I read science fiction every single day of my life. It's my primary love. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter… — S. Elle Cameron Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You aren't allowed out of the graveyard -it's aren't, by the way, not amn't, not these days-because it's only in the graveyard… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them.… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
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