Fiction Quotes
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The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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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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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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is 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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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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So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
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The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
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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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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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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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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 fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
