Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life” — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“In my life I haven’t done anything worth writing about, but that’s OK. That’s why I write fiction.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.” — James Van Pelt Copy Share Image
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction,… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“One by one, slow, quiet, with little more than a whispered end, Sofia snuffed the remaining candles. For every prayer she had… — Douglas Weissman Copy Share Image
I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips 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
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
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
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive… Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
“Just then a familiar voiced spoke right in to Stephens’s ear which startled him as his eyes once again began slowly opening.… — Gary Peeling 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
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.' — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. — Mae West Copy Share Image
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?” — Venita Ellick Copy Share Image
The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know. — Joel Gretsch Copy Share Image
“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,” — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
