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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“In a book of fiction the purpose is to create, for myself, the kind of world I want and to live in… — Ayn Rand 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
“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
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“My mother picked me up in her arms, touching my checks comforting my distress. I stared into her eyes and held her… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
“The real measure of 'truth' in any novel is not whether the characters, places and events portrayed exist beyond the pages of… — Graeme Macrae Burnet Copy Share Image
The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, particularly for young adults, may indicate a desire to… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“Returning my voice to a conversational level, I called back, “Nora, I’m not attempting to embarrass you or single you out. I… — Lia Habel Copy Share Image
“There's this word Libel that people love to pass around when filing lawsuits against someone who accurately described them in a publication.… — Niedria Kenny Copy Share Image
“It was just a word. It took nothing from him. It made him feel only as low as he allowed himself to… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists.… — Clifford A. Pickover Copy Share Image
Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
“Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“At the sound of her name, Lucia’s blue eyes honed in on me. She cocked her head to the side as if… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“For one… If you shoot me and your boss realizes it was without good reason, you’ll have fucked up your trial period.… — Natasha McNeely Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett 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 decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction…” quote by David Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c71/david-hare-9074_broadway_via-dolorosa-s-pushing-broadway-as-far-a_1470265.jpg)
![“[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but…” quote by Stanley Tucci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/155/stanley-tucci-10260_character_hollywood-studios-are-handing-out-money_2775030.jpg)
