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.
Camilla Lackberg
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
Yancy Butler
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
Damon Knight
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
Ornella Muti
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I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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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.
Iain Banks
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
Mal Peet
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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.
Gail Carson Levine
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
Erica Jong
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
Paul Auster
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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.
L.A. Weatherly
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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.
Zadie Smith
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If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.
Nicholas Sparks
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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.
Karen Thompson Walker
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. Jemisin
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
Damon Lindelof
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
E. L. Doctorow
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I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
Ray Bradbury
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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.
Flannery O'Connor
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...that part of what I loved about poetry was how the distinction between fiction and nonfiction didn't obtain, how the correspondence between text and world was less important than the intensities of the poem itself, what possibilities of feeling were opened up in the present tense of reading.
Ben Lerner
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
Thomas Carlyle
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Real life is much c than fiction, man.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
Olivia Wilde
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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.
Rachel Kushner