Fiction Quotes
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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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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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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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 most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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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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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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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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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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Real life is much c than fiction, man.
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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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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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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in 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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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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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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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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I've always been a fan of science 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.
