Fiction Quotes
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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
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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 never failed at anything in fiction.
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Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.
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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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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.
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Whenever you bring reality TV into the mix, it's only a matter of time before, whatever fiction you come up with, it'll become real.
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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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A public is a necessary fiction.
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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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Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we’re used to.
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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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Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
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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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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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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 is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.
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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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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
