The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship.
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against th….
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal..
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger..
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision..
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autob….
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by..
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement..
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written..
The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer..
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sa….
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as havi….
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US..
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with othe….
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal ills that we should talk about m….
Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in th….
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other..
Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense..
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?.
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's el….
The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 8….