Fiction Quotes
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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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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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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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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
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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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All autobiography is 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.
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
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Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information.
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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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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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I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.
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If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.
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With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the move to nonfiction didn't feel all that dramatic - just another half-step to the right.
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I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.
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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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Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction
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'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
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At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
