The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the... →
Graham Nelson
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
David Nicholls
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
Jeremy Northam
Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.
Heather O'Neill
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning... →
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.
Joyce Carol Oates
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is... →
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you... →
Conor Oberst
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
Tea Obreht
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.
Jenny Offill