Fiction Quotes
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You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.
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I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and I read literary fiction and I read books by dead people.
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Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.
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A public is a necessary fiction.
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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
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Being a novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. But unlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, one that has as much meaning for others as it has for her.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
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There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.
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In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
