One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
“there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like… — John Green Copy Share Image
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal.… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
I think the sci-fi world allows for exploration of that that isn't on the nose and that isn't preachy, but it's kind… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
“I have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I… — Brian K. Friesen Copy Share Image
All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I still think that of all the people doing top fiction today, John D. MacDonald is the best.He was my model as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a… — Chris Stocking Copy Share Image
I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable,I'm going to kill myself,because I won't know what else to do” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art. — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
“The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . .… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to… — Janet Goodfriend Copy Share Image
Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
