I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
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.
