Fiction Quotes
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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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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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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 will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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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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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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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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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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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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 always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.
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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.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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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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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.
