Fiction Quotes
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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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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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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 think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative 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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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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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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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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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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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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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 love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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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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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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Real life is much c than fiction, man.
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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've always been a fan of science fiction.
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
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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.
