Fiction Quotes
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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I love science fiction.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime 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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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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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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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.
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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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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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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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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
