Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Reading good fiction is like making the jump from masturbation to sex.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.” — Talia Copy Share Image
“The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.” — Thomas Sweeney Copy Share Image
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Sabrina Thomas clutched the leather-bound notebook to her chest and tried not to be impatient as the elevator in the south tower… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“C, it was like my breath was stolen. My heart seemed to merge with yours. When you came into my life, all… — J.L. Clayton Copy Share Image
They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them… — Stephen H. Segal Copy Share Image
I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
