Quotes of: Fiction-writers Keyword

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

Ray Bradbury

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

remembered rapture: the writer at work

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.

Anthony Horowitz

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

China Mieville

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

O. R. Melling

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

Paul Di Filippo

This is fan fiction, but it’s the fan fiction of a classical scholar who knows his stuff, even if he is a touch irreverent and unorthodox.

Sarah Warning Potentially Off-Topic

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

Steven Wright

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Tanith Lee

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

Joss Whedon

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Jennifer Weiner

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

Lucy Walker