Fiction Quotes
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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.
Zadie Smith -
There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
Hari Kunzru
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw -
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.
Tahmoh Penikett -
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.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I've always been a fan of science fiction.
Olivia Wilde -
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
Walter Kirn -
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
Erica Jong
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Ian Rankin -
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.
Steven Soderbergh -
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
Quentin Tarantino -
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
Tanith Lee -
Real life is much c than fiction, man.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.
James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold -
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks -
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
William Gibson -
In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
E. L. Doctorow -
I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.
Danielle Trussoni
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I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
Karin Slaughter -
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
J. M. Coetzee -
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth.
Simon Mawer -
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.
Eamon de Valera