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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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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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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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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I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.
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Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes.
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International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension of the (increasingly conflicting) values and interests of member states.
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I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films.
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Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
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There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
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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.
