Fiction Quotes
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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 treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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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 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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The truer the facts the better the fiction.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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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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I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge.
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I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.
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Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.
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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 haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
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The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.
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Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction
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Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.
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I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!
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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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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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When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
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Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
