Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I always thought of the stars like a handful of gems that God randomly tossed across the sky, saying, 'Here, go wherever… — Chelsea Vanderbeek Copy Share Image
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
“Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work. — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake up,”… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or… — John Banville Copy Share Image
The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction. — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise.… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
British and Canadian sci-fi strikes me as more forward-looking than its American counterpart, as evidenced by the success of Iain M. Banks,… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
I love sci-fi and period pieces - it's fantasy. I can let myself dream a little bit. But also, I just really… — Katherine Langford Copy Share Image
Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I blinked at him just casually talking about my new sex life with his genie-shiny head, and I knew at any second… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“We want to believe that this life is longer than it is, but in the grand scheme of the universe our existence… — Paul S. Anderson Copy Share Image
