Actual life Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I’ll say, G’day to you, Mr. Ryan!” Catherine said as she quickly closed the door in his face. “Oh, the arrogance,” she growled under…

— Diane Merrill Wigginton

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in…

— Joan Didion

I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who…

— Alan Keyes

“I don’t think I like American inventions [...] I am quite sure I don’t. I read some American novels lately, and they were quite…

— Oscar Wilde

“Solitude of this kind makes me unaware. The roots that bind my person, makes me yearn for freedom and more. I wish there was…

— Pooja Subramanian

“If you didn't already know, game show talent works fewer days a year than almost every profession, except maybe members of Congress.”

— John Bennardo

“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and…

— Virginia Woolf

“I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for me. He…

— John Bennardo

There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the…

— Flannery O'Connor

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography,…

— E. L. Doctorow

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

— J. Michael Straczynski

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person.…

— John Ralston Saul

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's…

— Joanna Scott

“the chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do.”

— John Gardner

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

— Anthony Horowitz