Awe Quote by J. Michael Straczynski

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

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex…

— Anthony Burgess

Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

“In point of fact, the greater one’s science, the deeper the sense of mystery. —Vladimir”

— Stanislas Dehaene

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

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

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

— Jason Clarke

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

— Lewis Mumford

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the…

— Patrick Stewart

“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction to learn…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie