Fiction Like Quotes
- Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the… — Susan Cheever
- The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to… — Gene Wolfe
- Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy. — Jennifer Haigh
- I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. — Lorde
- I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes… — Corey Taylor
- Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike… — Lawrence M. Krauss