Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.Vladimir Nabokov
Quotes to Explore
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
J. J. Abrams -
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw -
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker -
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
J. M. Coetzee -
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.
Barry Unsworth
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde -
I love science fiction.
Pam Grier -
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Ian Rankin -
'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 -
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. Doctorow -
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
Octavia E. Butler
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth -
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 -
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
J. M. Coetzee -
I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
Quentin Tarantino -
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
Yann Martel -
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
Damon Lindelof
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I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.
Oliver Reed -
It's a confidence booster for me to be known as a female who can take on any action, which is nice, to have that reputation, because then people know that when they hire me, I can actually do the physical stuff.
Rachel Nichols -
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov