Fiction Quotes
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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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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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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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
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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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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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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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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'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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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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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.
