The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play… — E.J. Stevens Copy Share Image
If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is the one literature that deals with today's reality - that provides a basis for discussion and understanding of the… — Biggle Copy Share Image
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
“From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: As Cassie’s body hurled toward him in the swirl, she realized the brevity of the situation.… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation.… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“The four of us stood in silence as we watched the surrounding girls play games or gossip. It was almost as if… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“We blended and look to what it has brought us. I planted lilies on your grave. The rain is already splattering them… — Carmen Dominique Taxer Copy Share Image
“You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one.” — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
“If I read this right, Gunther had not come to offer me congratulations. I will not give him the satisfaction of thinking… — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the creation of the author or are used fictitiously. Any… — Laurie LeClair Copy Share Image
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a vehicle to escapism. But fantasy, in my opinion, is escapism in its most vibrant and enchanting form.” — S.J. Pierce Copy Share Image
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part , a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
