Fiction Quotes
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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 reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
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I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.
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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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I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.
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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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A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.
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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
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I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
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You can't write any form of fiction unless you enjoy reading it. You must be sincere in your approach. It's no good despising the form. So many people think they could earn some money from writing something for which they have no affection. It won't work. The first thing you have to have is belief.
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Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.
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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 was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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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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Most apocalyptic fiction makes it very clear that it's the end of the world. But 'Bird Box' hasn't convinced me of that. Is 'Bird Box' instead a suburban neurotic nightmare? I don't think so. But it's fun to consider.
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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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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.
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I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.
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The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.
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Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction
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Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good.
