Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.” {Guy Gavriel Kay}
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..
The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...
For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.
I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
