Beauty Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my…

— Jenny Offill

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

— Wally Lamb

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

— Kwame Dawes

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone…

— James Cameron

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb…

— Joan D. Vinge

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

— Anne Fadiman

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting…

— Edward Einhorn

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art…

— Charles Stross