Fiction Quotes
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.
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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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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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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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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.
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Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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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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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.
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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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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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It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. Our living experience at those meeting points is one of the charged dramatic fields of fiction.
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Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.
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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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There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.
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It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.
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Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
