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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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 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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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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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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Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science 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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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
