Fiction Quotes
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
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I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
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Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction
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Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.
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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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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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I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
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For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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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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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.
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Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
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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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I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
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As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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.
