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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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
Fat Joe
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When one seriously comes to understand the classical philosophical tradition represented by Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas – and not merely the potted caricatures of it that even many professional philosophers, to their shame, tend to rely on – one learns just how contingent and open to question are the various modern, and typically “naturalistic,” philosophical assumptions that most contemporary thinkers and certainly most secularists simply take for granted without rational argument.
Edward Feser
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Tobacco Will Slowly and Surely Kill You." And so will time, Gwynn thought. But if you want the job done quickly, professionals recommend bullet.
K. J. Bishop
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Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
Nicholas Sparks