I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
Kate Mosse
HistoryI AmResearchRealFiction
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
Jennifer Weiner
MenYouHorrorWriteFictionNotice
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.
Jane Gardam
I AmWritingNewFictionAnything
It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.
David Shields
WorkTrueFictionMuchDidMany
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana Trump
GreatWritingYouFictionAnything
For me, fiction isn't very cathartic. It can be a broad, long catharsis, but it's a whole different thing - whereas music is physical. Essentially, it goes in through your ear. Fiction is cerebral, necessarily. It can do emotional stuff. But they don't really compare - not for me.
John Darnielle
MusicMeLongEmotionalFiction
I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.
James McGreevey
LifePersonalNeverAlwaysFiction
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
Chris Abani
BeautifulPoetryFirstFictionEssay
Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.
Frank Harris
FictionMemoirsFormWell-Known
I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'
Andrew Luck
PatriotBattlesFictionHistorical
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
Hunter S. Thompson
RealityYouArtistFictionFairytale
Science fiction is boring when someone starts explaining the science to me.
Colm McCarthy
ScienceMeSomeoneBoringFiction
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
WorkWritingStoryYouMoreFiction
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.
Maya Angelou
MindThinkSayFictionHappened
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
LifeWorldJournalismFictionSeen
I don't read fiction at all.
Brent Spiner
FictionRead
The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent.
Adrian McKinty
ThinkYouCrimeAwardsFictionOnly
Science fiction's been good to me. The fans are the most loyal fans in the world.
Robert Picardo
GoodScienceMeWorldFictionFans
His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
Gerald Clarke
FictionTheoryHisNon-FictionCould
I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.
Armistead Maupin
FictionShelterPreferTend
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
Daniel Woodrell
SweetCrimeFictionBetweenSpot
By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record.
Robert J. Sawyer
ScienceWordsWorldThreeFiction
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
George R. R. Martin
TruthPowerfulFictionCertain
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.
Anthony Doerr
WritingInterestingGoFictionJust
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