Fiction Quotes
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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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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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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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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.
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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 think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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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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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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Real life is much c than fiction, man.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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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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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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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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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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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.
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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.
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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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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
