William S. Burroughs 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 -
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 -
'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
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The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.
K. M. Soehnlein -
There is nothing in religion but fiction.
George Bernard Shaw -
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
Gavin Newsom -
[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.
Oliver D. Crisp -
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
William S. Burroughs