Fiction Quotes
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In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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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 don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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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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We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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Real life is much c than fiction, man.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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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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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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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.
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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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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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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.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.
