Fiction Quotes
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
Octavia E. Butler -
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
Ian Hickson
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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.
W. G. Sebald -
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.
Flannery O'Connor -
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.
Barry Unsworth -
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
Walter Kirn -
'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
Lance Reddick -
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
Forest Whitaker -
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.
Vikram Seth -
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.
Walter Kirn -
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
Camilla Lackberg -
Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
Laura Moser
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I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
Lorde -
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.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.
Karin Slaughter -
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. van Vogt -
I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
Gale Anne Hurd -
I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. Jemisin
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
Paul Auster -
I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
Mal Peet -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. Doctorow