“Wherever you are lacking, your obedience in working on that before your mate comes is vital.” — Angelo M. Swinson Copy Share Image
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.” — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
“They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of… — Stephanie Vaughn Copy Share Image
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“In this strife-torn valley, I have always been tormented by feelings of indefinite and eternal uncertainty. "The Half Mother" is an outcome… — Shahnaz Bashir Copy Share Image
I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
“Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
“I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“Misery comes to miser; joy comes to wiser. (A Very Hot Cup of Tea, Empathy) Juvenile invites, youth tries, adult applies, and… — D.R. Mirror Copy Share Image
“Some times, you write fiction stories. Others, you use fiction to write your story.” — S. Usher Evans Copy Share Image
The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.” — Peggy Ullman Bell Copy Share Image
“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
