#fiction

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write. ↗

— James Rollins

#after #critique #fiction #first #group

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#difference #fiction #make #reality #sense

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#fiction #first #first time #historical #historical fiction

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again. ↗

— Chester Brown

#because #despite #doing #done #enjoyed

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#fiction #grim #i #kind #kindred

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#before #began #fiction #i #reading

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction. ↗

— John le Carre

#only #some #subjects #tackled

I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and wanting to escape so badly, I could have stared at them forever: They were amazingly beautiful, so dense and bright. My eyes could get lost up there if I left them looking long enough. [...] They swallowed me up. They were like a hundred thousand tiny candles, sending out hope. ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#poetic-fiction #beauty

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#explains #fictional #itself #unlike

There’s always time for arguin’ when you’re a Fuentes. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#humour #romance #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #funny