I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979 — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.” — T.R. Wallace Copy Share Image
“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras,doesn't know what life… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not… — Karen Fowler Copy Share Image
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and… — Barney Rosset Copy Share Image
“He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I think I can safely call 2012 average. Overall, it was a stronger year for nonfiction than fiction - a situation that… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
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