Fiction Quotes
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
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...that part of what I loved about poetry was how the distinction between fiction and nonfiction didn't obtain, how the correspondence between text and world was less important than the intensities of the poem itself, what possibilities of feeling were opened up in the present tense of reading.
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This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.
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I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.
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Truth is not always injured by fiction.
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Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.
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Science fiction is not formulaic.
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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
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I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
