Fiction Quotes
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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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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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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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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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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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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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...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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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 don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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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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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 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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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.
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Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.
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Truth is not always injured by fiction.
