That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
The best Science Fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Ariel: “Eric!” Eric: “Do not sing me back to shore! Not until you are standing on two feet!” — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy… — Dee Wallace Copy Share Image
“Laurel look up at him in question, but he wouldn't meet her eyes. She always wished she had more time to draw… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I did infer, however, that submitting to melancholy would undo the labors of those who had come before me, that I had… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent,… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read. — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met” — Raji Singh Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right - John Cleaver” — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“Animals do not respect their master's brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Truth is not a saga of alarming episodes; it is a detail, usually a small one, that gives a fiction life.” — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I got expelled from the public library for putting all the 'Women's Rights' books in the fiction section. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction. — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
