Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality.” — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I’m a storyteller. I’ll work to make you believe me. Throw in some real stuff, change a few details, add the certainty… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
This is our most complete record by far. A Hundred Million Suns sounds like the marriage of everything we learned from the… — Gary Lightbody Copy Share Image
“He pulled me toward him, and all I could do was stand there with arms at my sides and head against his… — Jodi LaPalm Copy Share Image
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“You remember?' he said incredulously. 'What could you possibly remember?' he asked, staring at her, waiting for the answer. The beauty from… — Sebastian Cole Copy Share Image
“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain… — Lise Sarfati Copy Share Image
I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
