[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out… — Yvonne Korshak Copy Share Image
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“How long has it been since I entered this blackness? Has it been days, months, or years? I’m stuck here with my… — Shari J. Ryan Copy Share Image
“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“all writers, given adequate technique—technique that communicates—can stir our interest in their special subject matter, since at heart all fiction treats, directly… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Unwinding the white strips from our bodies, we let our sadness float to the ground. Women kicked their heels above their heads.… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
I've always believed in the power of rational thinking and behavior as the savior of the world, and science fiction as a… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“ Mary fought a savage impulse to slam the door on the couple. But they were too interesting to ignore in the… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be… — John Clute Copy Share Image
I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good.… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think,… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I am taken to the police station and they place me in an interrogation room. I am there for about thirty minutes… — Jorge Ortiz Copy Share Image
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there.… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
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