Fiction Quotes
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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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People read fiction for emotion-not information.
Sinclair Lewis
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The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth propositions, moves you along, moves your emotions as well as informs your intellect.
Hank Hanegraaff
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I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.
Ben Lerner
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Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
Saul Steinberg
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I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this. This is a little outlandish".
Debra Monroe
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Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.
Kathleen Rooney
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I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.
Ivan Reitman
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
John Gardner
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Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
Edwidge Danticat
