Fiction Quotes
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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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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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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Science fiction is not formulaic.
