Amelia Barr Quotes
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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 -
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
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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 -
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
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
L.A. Weatherly -
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 -
I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. Jemisin -
I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
Edwidge Danticat
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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.
Ian Hickson -
You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
Ian Mckellen -
I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
Eddie Marsan -
And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...
Jimmy Buffett -
I think the love between a child and parent is wonderful. You know, Mei... I haven't seen my mother for over two years. I used to live with her... but now I live with my father. I used to be sad and wonder why it happened... but parents have a lot of things they have to deal with too. I saw how they were suffering... and I know they both love me a lot. You can't let loneliness harden your heart. Mei, you know... Misuzu loves you, don't you?
Bisco Hatori -
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
Amelia Barr