Casts Quote by Darryl Pinckney

The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's strong enough,…

— Watkin Tudor Jones

As an actress, I think I really understand that stage where you think you are picking reality in order to feed the fiction, but…

— Ludivine Sagnier

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

— Kathy Acker

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

— Beth Moore

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or…

— Bret Easton Ellis

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in…

— George Saunders

Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the…

— Lauren Groff

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

— Joyce Carol Oates

[W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel like cinematic…

— John Hyams

The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of…

— Adam Morris

Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place…

— Clint Eastwood