“Rachael, I don’t think this is a very good idea.” Adam tried to protest and break away, but it was too late.… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting,… — Dennis Etchison Copy Share Image
“Noriega wound up like a baseball pitcher on top of the bed and hurled the small gun, but was low and outside… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
“A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!" "That you?" "I told… — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried,… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
“There are so many wild animals on the property. It makes the ashram Noah’s Arkish. All the wildlife is intact; watching the… — Tom Hillman Copy Share Image
“There's a water cycle. Water never goes away. It never dies or is destroyed. It just changed from form to form in… — Jeff Zentmer Copy Share Image
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I do think that science fiction ideas are best expressed through visual media like film and TV. Realist literature depicts things that… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and… — Philip K Dick Copy Share Image
“She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up.… — Moby Copy Share Image
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The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination.… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
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“Was love ever easy for anyone? If less complicated, would this make it less appreciated? Perhaps love was difficult for good reason.… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
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I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
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