Fiction Quotes
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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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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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
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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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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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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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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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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
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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've always been drawn to historical 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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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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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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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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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 don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.
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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 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.
