Fiction Quotes
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Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
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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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There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
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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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I never failed at anything in fiction.
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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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It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.
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Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.
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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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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'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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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 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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The Internet is changing American fiction - and I don't mean in some kind of metaphysical way.
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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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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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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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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
