With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.
there are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them
I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.
In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker?
Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
The Wolf: That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten.
Jules: Shit Negro! That's all you had to say!
Harold Crick: I brought you some flours.
Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots.
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.
