Fiction Quotes
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I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a question of "this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn't." I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It's totally impossible.
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Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
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The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you’d forgotten was there. Frame, crossbeams, slats, braces, joins. Revealing the softer sapwood, which is marked by candle burns. ...Jonathan holding both of my hands under the table, one of the first times we’d really touched. You must think I’m a lunatic. No, I think it’s a beautiful story. About family and art and memory and meaning, how it’s made and unmade.
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Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.
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If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
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Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we’re used to.
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I never failed at anything in fiction.
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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
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I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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The Internet is changing American fiction - and I don't mean in some kind of metaphysical way.
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When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.
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Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
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I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
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The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
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A public is a necessary fiction.
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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.
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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
