I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. — William March Copy Share Image
“My thoughts are free to go anywhere,but its suprising how often they head in your direction” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions... — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
“...we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“If you didn't already know, game show talent works fewer days a year than almost every profession, except maybe members of Congress.” — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. — Sylvia Porter Copy Share Image
“Fiona grabbed Rick in her arms and sobbed, “Oh Rick, this song drives me crazy. I can’t stop myself when you’re around… — Rebecca Harlem Copy Share Image
I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when… — Catherine Weaver Copy Share Image
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast, it’s no good living in the fucking past.” — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
“Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Transformational Fiction teaches how to assess, understand, and heal sexuality.” — Anne Stirling Hastings Ph. D Copy Share Image
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it. — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.” — Nicholas Dettmann Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
