Fiction Quotes
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Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
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So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
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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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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
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A public is a necessary fiction.
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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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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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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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Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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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?
