Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erica Jong

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

Susan B. Anthony

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

David Guterson

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Edward Norton

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

Bruno Bettelheim

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

Anita Diament

When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain.

Tahmoh Penikett

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

Tom Bissell

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

Laurie Levenson

The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.

Brent Spiner

I don't read fiction at all.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.