It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.
Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
