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crime-novels detectives detective-work
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective. Michael Connelly
novelists lessons
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this." Tom Perrotta
novelists males
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. Curtis Sittenfeld
fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction ground los reality
What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.
fiction kind film
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films. Ray Bradbury
fiction imagine terrible
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. Siri Hustvedt
fiction autobiography courses
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. P. D. James
fiction my-favorite all-time
Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time. Paul Pierce
fiction isolation protect
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic. Paul Bowles
fiction comedy science-fiction
Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix. Matt Groening
fiction reason-why worried
With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.