It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.” — Peggy Ullman Bell Copy Share Image
I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!” — I.R. Shankar Copy Share Image
My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young. — Daryl Sabara Copy Share Image
“Again Gabe looked back at Michael, hoping he was about to step in, but all he did was give him a nod.… — Wendy Owens Copy Share Image
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Having done, you know, science fiction, I didn't want to get trapped in science fiction. So my eclecticism was my only conscious… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
With fiction, and also with nonfiction that you can take your time doing, you have a much better chance of reaching across… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and… — Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis Copy Share Image
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from. — David Twohy Copy Share Image
Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As a science fiction fan, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award mean a lot to me. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media. — Robert Lutz Copy Share Image
My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.” — James Van Pelt Copy Share Image
