Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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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.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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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.
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.
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Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.
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Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.
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Then Saturday Night Live spawns... well, everything right down to American Pie 9, where all humor has to be irrelevant, which can get a little tiring.
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Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
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Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.
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The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.
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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
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God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, but we are not. Each day, ours is the challenge to access the power of the Atonement so that we can truly change, become more Christlike, and qualify for the gift of exaltation and live eternally with God, Jesus Christ, and our families. For these powers, privileges, and gospel gifts, thanks be to God!
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I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.
