Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction. — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
“The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Kneading memory makes the dough of fiction; which we know, sometimes never stops rising.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
In 'Nier Automata', the protagonists are androids, not humans, and that's very common in a Science Fiction story. — Yoko Taro Copy Share Image
One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
“All the clues are there in front of us,hidden under a veil,we cannot get the clue by searching for,we have to search… — Arkopaul Das Copy Share Image
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
Like steampunk, silkpunk is a blend of science fiction and fantasy. But while steampunk takes its inspiration from the chrome-brass-glass technology aesthetic… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“Fiction writing is art. It therefore, has few mathematical or scientific limits to its evolution. The writer must always push forward, experiment,… — Ron Gavalik Copy Share Image
C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is the arena of the not-yet, and every science fiction story has this element of not-yet-ness usually a bit… — Welch Everman Copy Share Image
“One of the most incredible secrets of science fiction (although one not too closely guarded) is the fact that 99 percent of… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.” — YKRaikou Copy Share Image
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
“ Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt. ” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense. — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science. — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breathless pulp. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
“Fiction allows you to go deeper into the truth. You can put anything down and you can take chances.” — Peter Matthieson Copy Share Image
Straightforward fiction functions only as more Bubble Wrap, nostalgia, retreat. — David Shields Copy Share Image
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You’ll be civilized or we’ll leave your arse here.” Johan... "Vital Perception” — D.L. Given Copy Share Image
I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
