Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

Meredith Vieira

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

Aleksandar Hemon

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

William Gibson

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.

William C. Samples

The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.

Jason Epstein

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intellig...

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is to understand those others who are our fictional characters, somehow to gain entrance to their minds and feelings, to respect them for the...

Heart of a Stranger

You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some kinds of molecules to pass from the bloodstream into the brain. Emotions can easily pass from the fictional world into the re...

Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You

A painter,” he said, as though the word were an insult. “I’m a .” “You’re a ? a writer.” “What do you write?” “Stories. Books. A book. Fiction.” “Fiction. . That’s not writing.” “What do you write?” “I write the trut...

The Painting of Porcupine City

I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way...

Neil Gaiman

Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.

The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

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

Her descriptions will be incandescent, perfect little nuggets of phraseology, and there will probably be lots of sex in her writing - the clinical type of sex with labias and clitorises and tongues going everywhere.

The Fiction Class

It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.

The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking." "Wish I was.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

Connie Willis

He hadn’t altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.

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