“We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn’t make them any less painful.” — Nicki Salcedo Copy Share Image
The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Evil knows its time to end is soon at hand, hence why it is more than determined to succeed.” — Milkweed L. Augustine Copy Share Image
“I've always felt sad for people who don't read fiction; they only get to live one life.” — Jack Tyler Copy Share Image
“A true fiction author is able to act through each character in their book and deliver stunning performances.” — Conrad Brasso Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t until I noticed two of the words on the sheet printed on a folder label. Sure enough, it was Williams’… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to… — Gemma Halliday Copy Share Image
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young… — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character… — Johnathon Schaech Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Our late modern world prides itself on recognising, for the first time in history, the basic equality of all humans, yet it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
"The Wolfpack" is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe. — James Franco Copy Share Image
It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be. — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
