William H. Gass Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
J. J. Abrams -
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw -
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
R. A. Salvatore -
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker -
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
J. M. Coetzee
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
Barry Unsworth -
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde -
I love science fiction.
Pam Grier -
She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.
Dan Brown -
I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
Jacob Artist -
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Ian Rankin
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
Lance Reddick -
Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
Victor LaValle -
I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
Young Thug -
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. Doctorow -
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
Octavia E. Butler -
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
W. G. Sebald -
I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing is infinitely harder. Especially with the economics of serious fiction being what they are in America.
Tony Kushner -
The Internet is changing American fiction - and I don't mean in some kind of metaphysical way.
Ethan Canin -
Mathematical knowledge is unlike any other knowledge. While our perception of the physical world can always be distorted, our perception of mathematical truths can’t be. They are objective, persistent, necessary truths. A mathematical formula or theorem means the same thing to anyone anywhere – no matter what gender, religion, or skin color; it will mean the same thing to anyone a thousand years from now. And what’s also amazing is that we own all of them. No one can patent a mathematical formula, it’s ours to share. There is nothing in this world that is so deep and exquisite and yet so readily available to all. That such a reservoir of knowledge really exists is nearly unbelievable. It’s too precious to be given away to the “initiated few.” It belongs to all of us.
Edward Frenkel -
The Ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.
Rumi -
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
William H. Gass