Fiction Quotes
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It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
Charlotte Lennox -
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
William H. Gass
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Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
William Randolph Hearst -
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.
William Shatner -
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.
Lorde -
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
William Shakespeare -
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.
E. Haldeman-Julius
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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.
Marge Piercy -
Human life is fiction's only theme.
Eudora Welty -
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.
Maya Angelou -
When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses.
Elliott Colla -
The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
there are elements of truth in all great fiction
Teresa Medeiros
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Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
Nicholas Sparks -
I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.
Alvaro Enrigue -
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
Sara Sheridan -
Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
Tom Stoppard -
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.
William Gibson -
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.
Flannery O'Connor
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No one in life can ever match fiction
Sabrina Jeffries -
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
Jhumpa Lahiri -
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
Tom Stoppard -
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.
William Gibson