Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
Even if I am short of EMIs, I will not do fiction on TV. I might as well open a shop. — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.” — John Alexander Copy Share Image
“How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?” — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I like to come back to the science fiction of Stanislaw Lem. He is comforting but also funny, and although I know… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
“In this strife-torn valley, I have always been tormented by feelings of indefinite and eternal uncertainty. "The Half Mother" is an outcome… — Shahnaz Bashir Copy Share Image
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves.… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“So...Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?" "Yes." "Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in… — John Hyams Copy Share Image
I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
