“Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. -Paul Theroux, novelist (b. 1941)” — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“our destinies are intertwined like the stems of ivy on an oak tree.” — Chris Tinniswood Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.” — Peggy Ullman Bell Copy Share Image
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
“I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“What an interesting choice of words. “Not real, and never were.” Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's… — Jon Scieszka 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
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
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
“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
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
“Whenever I’d get howlin’ over something, he’d grab my ass up from wherever I was and head straight for the john. Momma… — Cole Alpaugh 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
“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.” — Kristen Reed Copy Share Image
“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.” — Susan Rowland 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
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
“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
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
