Fiction Quotes
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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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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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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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Evidently what in the fiction of the story serves in all innocence to reach the heart of the reader becomes an abomination for one who feels the echo of the facts she has really lived.
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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we’re used to.
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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.
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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A public is a necessary fiction.
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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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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.
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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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When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.
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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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So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
