Fiction Quotes
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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Real life is much c than fiction, man.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
