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I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
ELEANOR CATTON I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
FRANCINE PROSE![]()
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers deal...
WALTER MOSLEY![]()
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
DENNIS LEHANE![]()
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ...
WALTER MOSLEY![]()
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
KHALED HOSSEINI![]()
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN![]()
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can per...
MARK HADDON I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud ...
TAWNI O'DELL I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write...
TAHMOH PENIKETT By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
JANETTE RALLISON I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
MALORIE BLACKMAN![]()
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never...
ISABEL ALLENDE![]()
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
LEO ROSTEN![]()
Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fi...
LYDIA MILLET I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen...
EMILY PERKINS![]()
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influ...
BARRY EISLER Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
ROBERT J. SAWYER![]()
Ten years ago, the Orange Prize for Fiction shook up the literary world when we launched one of the ...
KATE MOSSE I think truth is weirder than fiction.
JAMES MARSTERS Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.
ALJEAN HARMETZ![]()
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN![]()
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN![]()
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs,...
MARK HADDON![]()
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literatu...
CHARLES STROSS![]()
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The w...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS![]()
Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan...
BARRY EISLER My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either a...
SCOTT TUROW There was something distinctly American about it all, a fundamental difference in perspective and pl...
SUNIL YAPA I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can al...
TRACY KIDDER![]()
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like C...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS That's all it's meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that y...
STEPHEN COONTS If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)
JOHANNES GOUWS![]()
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed t...
J. G. BALLARD![]()
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more t...
CLARK ZLOTCHEW![]()
I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.
ROBERT SILVERBERG![]()
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than rea...
JACQUES BARZUN Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for...
GARRY DISHER To me, Gothic fiction is the literary representation of the stormy gloom of the British Isles.
STEWART STAFFORD I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b...
TED CHIANG![]()
Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only re...
PANKAJ MISHRA Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device si...
JOANNE HARRIS I shake my head and rub the bridge of my nose. "There's a whole lot more at stake here than just my ...
KARA SWANSON![]()
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.
WILLIAM GIBSON![]()
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
DEAN KOONTZ![]()
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doe...
NEIL GAIMAN Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
JACK MCDEVITT![]()
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer
FREDERIC RAPHAEL I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the ...
JESS WALTER![]()
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I d...
COLUM MCCANN Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to co...
BRAD HOLLAND![]()
Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from phys...
MICHIO KAKU![]()
I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.
AKHIL SHARMA![]()
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised...
ALAIN DE BOTTON![]()
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and t...
G. K. CHESTERTON![]()
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and t...
TOM CLANCY Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite ...
EDWARD FAHEY Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a livi...
JANETTE RALLISON![]()
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and phil...
JOHN CHEEVER Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science...
PHILIP K. DICK There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.
CATHERINE JINKS![]()
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to...
EDWARD HIRSCH![]()
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
TOM CLANCY![]()
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
JEAN RHYS![]()
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci...
PHILIP K. DICK Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he...
LEE GUTKIND I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But...
ELLEN POTTER![]()
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature an...
JOHN SCALZI![]()
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirti...
CHARLES FRAZIER Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literar...
L. E. MODESITT, JR.![]()
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
VERNOR VINGE I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional ...
IRA GLASS I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and wo...
NEIL CROSS![]()
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're prob...
MARGARET ATWOOD I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.
SHAUN CASSIDY![]()
At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brig...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE![]()
I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite scienc...
BRAD FELD![]()
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'...
TERRY PRATCHETT![]()
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its recor...
WILLIAM GIBSON The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the com...
NANCY KRESS![]()
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I did...
AMY TAN I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more ...
GARDNER DOZOIS![]()
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo...
RAY BRADBURY A woman in a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction, but for us, this fiction
is better than th...
EUGENE CHAPUS![]()
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fict...
MOHSIN HAMID With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject&...
BLAKE BAILEY![]()
I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
ELIZABETH MOON I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did tr...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT![]()
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to mak...
SARAH DESSEN I think printed fiction is what women read.
CHARLOTTE LAMB![]()
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
WALLY LAMB The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
SHERI S. TEPPER Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
RUDY RUCKER I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.
NNEDI OKORAFOR I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mi...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I love ocean life. I'm fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted...
NNEDI OKORAFOR
ELEANOR CATTON I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
FRANCINE PROSE
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers deal... WALTER MOSLEY
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. DENNIS LEHANE
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ... WALTER MOSLEY
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. KHALED HOSSEINI
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can per... MARK HADDON I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud ...
TAWNI O'DELL I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write...
TAHMOH PENIKETT By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
JANETTE RALLISON I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
MALORIE BLACKMAN
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never... ISABEL ALLENDE
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. LEO ROSTEN
Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fi... LYDIA MILLET I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen...
EMILY PERKINS
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influ... BARRY EISLER Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Ten years ago, the Orange Prize for Fiction shook up the literary world when we launched one of the ... KATE MOSSE I think truth is weirder than fiction.
JAMES MARSTERS Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.
ALJEAN HARMETZ
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. MARK TWAIN
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. MARK TWAIN
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs,... MARK HADDON
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literatu... CHARLES STROSS
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The w... CHARLES J. SHIELDS
Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan... BARRY EISLER My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either a...
SCOTT TUROW There was something distinctly American about it all, a fundamental difference in perspective and pl...
SUNIL YAPA I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can al...
TRACY KIDDER
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. MARK TWAIN The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like C...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS That's all it's meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that y...
STEPHEN COONTS If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)
JOHANNES GOUWS
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed t... J. G. BALLARD
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more t...
CLARK ZLOTCHEW
I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. ROBERT SILVERBERG
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than rea... JACQUES BARZUN Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for...
GARRY DISHER To me, Gothic fiction is the literary representation of the stormy gloom of the British Isles.
STEWART STAFFORD I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b...
TED CHIANG
Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only re... PANKAJ MISHRA Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device si...
JOANNE HARRIS I shake my head and rub the bridge of my nose. "There's a whole lot more at stake here than just my ...
KARA SWANSON
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. WILLIAM GIBSON
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. DEAN KOONTZ
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doe... NEIL GAIMAN Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
JACK MCDEVITT
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer FREDERIC RAPHAEL I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the ...
JESS WALTER
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I d... COLUM MCCANN Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to co...
BRAD HOLLAND
Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from phys... MICHIO KAKU
I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir. AKHIL SHARMA
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised... ALAIN DE BOTTON
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and t... G. K. CHESTERTON
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and t... TOM CLANCY Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite ...
EDWARD FAHEY Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a livi...
JANETTE RALLISON
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and phil... JOHN CHEEVER Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science...
PHILIP K. DICK There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.
CATHERINE JINKS
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to... EDWARD HIRSCH
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. TOM CLANCY
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials JEAN RHYS
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. LORD BYRON Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci...
PHILIP K. DICK Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he...
LEE GUTKIND I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But...
ELLEN POTTER
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature an... JOHN SCALZI
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirti... CHARLES FRAZIER Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literar...
L. E. MODESITT, JR.
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. VERNOR VINGE I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional ...
IRA GLASS I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and wo...
NEIL CROSS
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're prob... MARGARET ATWOOD I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.
SHAUN CASSIDY
At Tara in this fateful hour,I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brig...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite scienc... BRAD FELD
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'... TERRY PRATCHETT
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its recor... WILLIAM GIBSON The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the com...
NANCY KRESS
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I did... AMY TAN I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more ...
GARDNER DOZOIS
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo... RAY BRADBURY A woman in a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction, but for us, this fiction
is better than th...
EUGENE CHAPUS
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fict... MOHSIN HAMID With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject&...
BLAKE BAILEY
I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction. ELIZABETH MOON I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did tr...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to mak... SARAH DESSEN I think printed fiction is what women read.
CHARLOTTE LAMB
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. WALLY LAMB The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
SHERI S. TEPPER Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
RUDY RUCKER I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.
NNEDI OKORAFOR I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mi...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I love ocean life. I'm fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted...
NNEDI OKORAFOR
