Fiction Quotes
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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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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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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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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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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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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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.
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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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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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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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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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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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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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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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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
