Am I Penny?” I say. “From Sand on Our Beach? And Austin, and Sheila.… Am I them? Are they me?” He pauses, and then: “They’re them. And you’re you. But I wouldn’t have them if I didn’t have you.” A beat. “You know, the thing about fic is that it comes from love. Characters you love so much, that you feel so deeply for, you’ll watch them fall in love a thousand different ways, over and over. “I’ve never loved any of my characters that much,” he says. “But I love you that much. So maybe … so that’s where I went. That’s what I went with.
Even though it may be fiction, I never want to lie about the world I know: the Black one. I wish to write truth, even in a fictionalized world derived from my imagination. It should tell an accurate narrative of who we are and who we have the potential to be.
Education is not the learning of corporate government propaganda, but of training the mind to filter facts from fiction.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.
A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breathless pulp.
Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started reading more literary fiction.
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.