Fiction Quotes
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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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Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.
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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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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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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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Science fiction is not formulaic.
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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 love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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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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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
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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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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 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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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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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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Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.
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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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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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I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.
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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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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 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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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
