Fiction Quotes
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We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
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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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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
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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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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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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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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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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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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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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 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 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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Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.
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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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Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.
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Truth is not always injured by fiction.
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Science fiction is not formulaic.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
