“Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction. — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind. — Vernon Reid Copy Share Image
“He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the… — John H. Matthews Copy Share Image
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. — Carlton Mellick III Copy Share Image
“The truth is, time marches on and you have two choices: You move forward, come what may, and you experience all the… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“It took me a moment to speak. My heart pumped madly as though I’d run for miles in pursuit of something vital.… — J.J. Sorel Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life;… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Although when there were too many people around- which there certainly were today- it was hard even to remember to say thank… — Robin Mckinley Copy Share Image
I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If you intend to heal the breach,” she went on, “as you claim. If you intend to abide by the treaty we… — Brian Staveley Copy Share Image
The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young… — Scott O'Dell Copy Share Image
The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
