writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“ Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt. ” — Patrick Ness 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
Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
“No man, no matter how smart or strong, can compete with a motivated woman.” — J.K. Franko Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn’t moved, but she… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
“I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Get off! Get off me, ‘Felix sobbed, sounding like a little kid. Marco kicked at the sickos, slashing with his knife. It… — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I.… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Father and the child were no longer speaking, but they sat together in silence. The child was at his feet, and he… — Carmen Dominique Taxer Copy Share Image
“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing.… — John Green Copy Share Image
In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“[E]verything is fiction. When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and… — Keith Ridgway Copy Share Image