Art Quote by Joanna Scott

I think there's over-telling sometimes, in fiction. For instance, I'm a big fan of horror movies, but I could always lose the last third…

— Evie Wyld

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

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

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

“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

“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

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to…

— Randy Schekman