William H. Gass Quotes
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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.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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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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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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I love science fiction.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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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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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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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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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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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.
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The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.
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In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.
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Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them.
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I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
