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.
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 -
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
R. A. Salvatore -
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
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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.
Barry Unsworth -
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde -
I love science fiction.
Pam Grier -
She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.
Dan Brown -
I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
Jacob Artist -
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Ian Rankin
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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.
Lance Reddick -
Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
Victor LaValle -
I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
Young Thug -
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 utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth
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I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
Ray Bradbury -
“There is nothing he enjoys so much as a good walk, which he calls “the most social of exercises.”
Will Thomas (novelist) -
I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
Sharon Horgan -
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
William H. Gass