Quotes by Fiction I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going. Andrew Bird modern imagination fiction Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it. Andrew Lam first-love careers fiction I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. Andrew Lam abstract-painting writing fiction In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national . Andrew Lam events historical fiction Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer. Andrew Vachss max facts fiction This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries. Andrzej Stasiuk names country fiction But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff. Andy Richter nonfiction stuff fiction I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. Aneurin Bevan politics political fiction The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been. Angela Carter time death fiction Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished. Anita Brookner wicked moral fiction For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out. Ann-Margret kitchen cooking fiction The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote. Ann Patchett nonfiction pieces fiction Fiction is always really a labor. Ann Patchett labor fiction Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard. Ann Patchett nonfiction easy fiction I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life. Ann Patchett saws odd fiction I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which continues to be a problem for novelists the world over. Anna Quindlen novelists fiction world I've only read fiction, so I don't know anything actual Anna Torv knows fiction With science fiction there's endless possibilities. Anna Torv endless-possibilities possibility fiction Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre. Anna Torv becoming kind fiction Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet. Annalee Newitz fields dark fiction «1234567891011»