Some of the food in Liquor is food I’ve really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. – Poppy Z. Brite
Those who read the fiction assume that, because I’m also a historian, I know what I’m talking about. – Saul David
I write literary, not commercial, fiction – or so I’ve been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial. – Tawni O’Dell
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. – Saul Steinberg
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. – Suzan-Lori Parks
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. – Susan Sontag
I love science fiction when it’s well-done. I don’t like campy stuff. I don’t like stuff that’s too fantastical. – Tahmoh Penikett
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I’ve always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. – V. S. Naipaul
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain. – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer… Being a critic wasn’t an aspiration of mine. – Walter Kirn
Short stories are fiction’s R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for. – Walter Kirn
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German. – W. G. Sebald
That’s the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain – they cannot be otherwise. – Zadie Smith
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. – V. S. Naipaul
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? – Tanith Lee
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one. – Walter Jon Williams
When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn’t pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did. – Ted Chiang
I like to read really good books – anything that’s really great, whether it’s fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever. – Tyler Hilton
There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy. – Sarah Hall