Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Someday or the other... we will find what we are looking for, or maybe we won't, maybe we will find something much… — Adbhut Copy Share Image
I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta.… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language,… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“the house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, a number of possible windows not to be reckoned,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“Because the truth is, fiction is one of the most effective time travel machines in the universe and always has been.” — Ann VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human… — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
With fiction, you can do whatever you want to, but if you are making a film on someone, you have to stick… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I've always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, 'If no one is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue?… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff. — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
“Death was a leech; no matter which side of the spectrum you were on, either dead or alive, it fed. It either… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
