Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building. — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
“One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction. — Val McDermid Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are lots of great characters in fiction who viewers and readers have engaged with that behave badly. Great characters can be… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from… — Annie Murphy Paul Copy Share Image
I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I think that the idea of boundaries is being challenged everywhere. And I think our fascination with sci-fi is that it is… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him.” — Chuck Black Copy Share Image
“The door wasn’t closing. Shiloh’s spirit opened up as she considered the possibilities.” — Stacy Hawkins Adams Copy Share Image
Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Keep those eyes of yours, mate, wide-fucking-open. Never know when it’s watching.” — Adam Scott Huerta Copy Share Image
“Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.” — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“Before I met you, my life ran on sheer amusement. After I met you, my life ran on sheer compassion.” — Heenashree Khandelwal Copy Share Image
Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?" — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart. — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
“Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.” — Dorothy W. Cosey Copy Share Image
“We are monsters with good intentions, our instincts drive us but our passions devour us” — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record, — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
