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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The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.
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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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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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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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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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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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If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we’re used to.
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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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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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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
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I never failed at anything in fiction.
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A public is a necessary fiction.
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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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People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
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Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
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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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I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
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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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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
