Nicholas Sparks Quotes
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
Sally Ride
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
J. M. Coetzee
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
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I love science fiction.
Pam Grier
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. Doctorow
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Jackson Browne
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Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'
Olly Murs
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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
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
J. M. Coetzee
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I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
Kanye West
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
Quentin Tarantino
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
Yann Martel
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
Damon Lindelof
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. Jemisin
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
John Gardner
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Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them.
Allen Shawn
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The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required.
Damian Marley
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You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.
Shunryu Suzuki
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I got chronic stuff that everybody has when they're done playing football for any length of time. So the good thing is I'm able to walk. I feel good. I'm able to spend more time with the fam.
Calvin Johnson
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Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
Nicholas Sparks