Fiction Quotes
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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
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Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocketship to the mix. If a book has a rocketship in it, the only thing that can turn it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.
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I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.
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The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.
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The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
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Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
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Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.
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Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
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Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
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Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.
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Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.
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I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
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A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
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Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C. Bauers gives us everything we want in our military science fiction, but never allows the hardware and action to overshadow Paen and everyone else caught in the crossfire.
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The truer the facts the better the fiction.
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The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.
