As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the… — David Bazan Copy Share Image
“The defenders retreated, but in good order. A musket flamed and a ball shattered a marine’s collar bone, spinning him around. The… — David Cook Copy Share Image
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game.… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
“Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“I often tell my students that fiction is about desire in one way or another. The older I get, the more I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon… — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
“Why is life a constant disappointment?' 'Because we read fiction,' Mia said, and Shelley nodded, knowing it was true.” — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I love near-term sci-fi. I especially love right-now sci-fi: stuff that happens in current time but incorporates a scientific breakthrough that is… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
“Horror stories are not just about fear, they are about choices, consequences, and the darkness hidden inside human minds. Stories like Lost… — Lost Life Fan Copy Share Image
In this strange world called Earth, I have run into dead things that seemed to be alive; and living ones that seemed… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Karl wondered how many scientists read this science fiction stuff. Maybe they couldn’t get good books out in New Mexico?” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“...there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled… — Sveva Casati Modignani Copy Share Image
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