Fiction Quotes
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I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.
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There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.
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Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
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Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.
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The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that world. But honestly, if all crime fiction was quality fiction, it would be taken more seriously.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
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Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.
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Fiction creating reality.
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Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
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For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best, with readers spending their money on movie tie-in novels and sequels to long-running series.
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Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.
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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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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.
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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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There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.
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In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
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It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
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Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
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A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.
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It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.
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Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.
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In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
