Fiction Quotes
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I guess it was easier for me to find my voice in poetry than it was in fiction. I'm working on fiction again, and I find it a lot more difficult. It's a struggle. At a certain point, you have your voice and you go to it every time, so it's not like reinventing the wheel. That's the way I see it at least.
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Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
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Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.
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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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No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.
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If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
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I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
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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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When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses.
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It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
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The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.
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The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
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I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
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In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
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When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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there are elements of truth in all great fiction
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It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.
