I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you… — James Patterson 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
[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I’m not your boyfriend!” I snapped, trying to gently move her hands away from my body. “How can you say that?” Sara… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
“I’ll find out who’s inside. Wait here and keep alert!’ Hallam rasped. He skirted the main path to skulk towards one of… — David Cook Copy Share Image
“She was disappointed in herself for being the typical girl. She never wants to be that girl. That girl…is an emotional wreck.… — Iesha S. Walker Copy Share Image
'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“What are you doing?” Egnatious asked, eyebrows furrowed as he watched Gabriella do a flip. Firen mimicked Gabriella and turned to Egnatious.… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“More than likely you’ll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable and then, eventually, another… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
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