“I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.” ThinkingTwoBodyAbleCertainThreeVoiceFictionFivePaperProfessionFiction WritersSchizophrenic Author:Ridley Pearson
“I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.” KnowsBookFallThreeFictionHavensMinesCoupleScience FictionContemporaryEnjoyedGenreCategoriesRealisticSci FiHistoricRealistic Fiction Author:Lois Lowry
“I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.” YearsBookThreeReadingStuffFictionFantasyScience FictionLibraryRanThree Years Author:Terry Pratchett
“When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.” TwoThreeMy OwnFictionAwardsBallots Author:Kelly Link
“here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.” PeopleFirstsBelieveBookEarthThreeReadingI BelieveFictionWrittenCenturyReaderResourcesFirst TimeRainTwentiesFolksForestsLayersBook ReadingFiction WritersOzoneOzone LayerWritten History Book:A Year in Van Nuys Source: A Year in Van Nuys
“Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.” WorldYearsLooksTwoDifferentThreeFictionEventsFortuneTwo YearsThree YearsHostageWorld Events Author:Mark Haddon
“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.” YearsBookThreeReadingFictionFourCarAmountBedFairsNonfictionDesksBack And Forth Author:James Patterson
“For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.” ChildrenLittlesBookThreeParentNaturalFictionFourWeekChildhoodHorrorLibraryLocalsCinemaSci FiThrillersRubberFoamStoolsNatural HistoryDevouringOrigami Author:David Nicholls
“Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.” TwoBookEndsHappensThreeFictionWeekDozenNonfictionVersesVolumeNew BooksOld Books Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."” ThinkingStillsBookHandsThreeFictionWonderMoralDoorsQuestioningMake You ThinkBack Doors Book:Nineteen Minutes Source: Nineteen Minutes
“Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.” WritingYearsTwoLastsThreeImaginationFictionProseThree YearsWriting Fiction Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible.” PeopleGivingYearsBookUseSeemsAbleRememberThreeFictionFiveImpossibleSceneTenConversationPagesMemoirDialogueFive YearsConventionsAstonishingFive Year Olds Author:Paul Auster
“In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.” PeopleLittlesShowsAgeYoungThreeNumbersFictionKnownGoldenDecentFadingGolden AgePhilipSnicket Author:David Mitchell
“I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too, and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick’s great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true.” MadeKidsFilmThreeSpaceFictionWatchesScience FictionRunnersBladesStanleyOdysseyBlade RunnerSpace Odyssey2001 A Space Odyssey Author:Bruce Willis
“Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.” IfsShouldPersonsEndsFactsStoriesThreeFictionSituationChangedElementsThings Have Changed Book:Conversations with Malcolm Cowley Source: Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
“The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.” WayWritingFirstsLongHas BeensStoriesThreeFictionRiversBottomSentencesResistanceMy WayDepartmentEditorsShort StoryPrintedNew YorkersObjectionsOne Sentence Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every word in it has three score and ten "toptypsical" meanings - an exaggeration, of course, but an important reminder to readers who like their fiction definite.” ImportantThreeCoursesLiteratureTermFictionPerspectiveReaderTenScoreDefiniteRemindersExaggerationFinnegans Wake Author:Philip Kitcher
“I have a 22-year-old son, and when my son was born I made a decision to raise him. My husband and I took turns working, and it's easier to raise a kid in the documentary world, where you go away for two weeks or three weeks rather than the months that you spend on a feature. That was and still is much more open to women DPs than the world of fiction.” WorldYearsMadeStillsTwoKidsTurnsThreeBornDecisionFictionWeekSonMonthsEasierHusbandRaisesFeaturesGoing AwayMy HusbandMy SonDocumentariesTwo Weeks Author:Maryse Alberti
“However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have people selling off their topsoil, and an underwater oil spill that has lasted over three-hundred days.” PeopleWantGivingThreeFictionHundredOilSellingWarningHeadingsSpillsUnderwaterOil SpillTopsoil Author:Alexander Weinstein
“Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.” HomeThreeLiteratureFictionWifeLateWhalesOne Hundred Years Of Solitude Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez