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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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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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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Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
Paul Harding
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
Natascha McElhone
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Who cares how you get caught? If you're cheating, if you're doing wrong, it doesn't matter what you're doing -- it's wrong.
Clint Bowyer
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"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
Charles Dickens
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Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
Nicholas Sparks