Fiction Quotes
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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?
Tanith Lee
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Darcy, the heroine of 'Something Blue,' is quite shallow and opinionated. At one point, she commented that she dislikes 'gingers,' i.e., men with red hair. I received several emails from fiery redheads who said they were offended by 'my' comments. I had to remind them that it is fiction.
Emily Giffin
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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.
Quentin Tarantino
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Ian Rankin
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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.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
Barbara Kingsolver
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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
Walter Kirn
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Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
Wallace Stegner
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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.
Steven Soderbergh
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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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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
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Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something from a one-step-removed process, to give a little objectivity and insight into something that, if you were applying it on the face of it, we'd all be too close to.
Noah Wyle
