Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.” — Lawrence Thornton Copy Share Image
“Nature has distributed intelligence unequally, but imagination equally.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.” — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Every minute I decide not to kill you is a minute your life is saved. You owe me everything.” — Christina L. Barr Copy Share Image
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste,” I said.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
“I read because imagination was the only thing that elevated me beyond my own reality. To look at my world as my… — Katie Ray Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
How could I have kept out this incredible fiction? That's when it all started for me. I was, and still am, a… — Arjen Anthony Lucassen Copy Share Image
You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
“It's from the newspapers that people I know - relatives and co-workers - have got the idea that crosswords are a prophylactic… — Alan Connor Copy Share Image
I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“To many battles are the fictional skirmishes of an unoccupied mind.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“It is through fiction that we learn not to believe everything we read in print.” — Ann Mullen Copy Share Image
“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.” — Tapan Ghosh Copy Share Image
In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story. — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read. — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Everyone is a part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording” — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?” — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
