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Every error we embrace plants the seeds of unexpected discovery; the key is in finding treasure within reasons gone awry.
Author:
Ella Dao
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Life's finest moments often flutter in without invitation, weaving unparalleled harmony through serendipity; a dancer sways when dances arise unchoreographed.
Author:
Eloise Lawrence
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Woven into the fabric of time, silence harbors the echoes of stories untold, pulling passionate seekers toward its depths, turning stillness into a map of mysteries.
Author:
Anail Alkest
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The beauty of forgotten stories dances in the fog of memory, weaving narratives no longer embraced yet bursting with boundless lives played out in silence.
Author:
Elise Brandt
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Like flames dancing briefly in a twilight sky, the joy and pain in fleeting bonds create a beauty that lingers long after; it's the chaos of kuntandid brusissancente lingering where possession grows hollow.
Author:
Lara Valente
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The wisps of wind gather secrets amongst themselves; there's magic in every shifting cloud as they quite poetically conspire in dimly hidden communication.
Author:
Sophia Verne
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Cultural echoes reverberate in virtual realms, crafting a mirror where humanity confronts not just its variances but its dreams deservedly unbounded.
Author:
Layla Wezdem
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Embrace the unraveling mysteries of each day, for in discovering yourself, you water the roots of a good life.
Author:
Mara Jenks
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Imaginary cities breathe life into our unshackled dreams, marking the canvas of human culture with colors only found in our minds; they invite us to dance between possible worlds shining brightly with narratives unparalleled in the steady expanse of ship-steathed regrets.
Author:
Elara Voss
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In a culinary deepcopy of dreams, imagined feasts fall at high noon aflame with flavors of pixelated nostalgia, birthing bites from inked adolescence imploring tomorrow's chefs to sprinkle starlas above ignorance.
Author:
Elira Marsh
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In the kaleidoscope of fantasy, where vegetables serenade the sun and desserts levitate in glee, every flavor discovered draws us gently closer to worlds unknown.
Author:
Clara Felonius
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Savoring the flavor of dream-rendered meals can conjure worlds untold; each bite is a passage and every plate a perspective on potential.
Author:
Elara trinAstin
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In the rich tapestry of fiction, imaginary foods aren't just sustenance; they are symbols flavored with dreams, mocking boundaries and nourishing the limitless landscapes of our imagination.
Author:
Elara Fields
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Tasting the packed tales of flavors both bizarre and impossible, we feast on courage and whimsy along the forked paths of imagination.
Author:
Faye Rivers
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Each bite of whimsy on my plate tells stories of worlds we yearn to explore--impossible fusions delicately balancing dreams and strings of nostalgia.
Author:
Clara Crockett
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Inblended potions of pixie spice leave our tastebuds drifting through clouds of adventures yet unseen.
Author:
Elara Windsong
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in plain sight
Author:
Dan Brown
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In the art of telling stories, we create windows into worlds that don't exist but shine with truths that resonate across time.
Author:
Clara Phillips
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The wings of imagination can take us farther than any plane ever could.
Author:
Gabriella Stone
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In the realm of possibility, lies the abyss of perpetual opportunity.
Author:
Ava Harper
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Imagination is the key that unlocks infinite possibilities in a confined reality.
Author:
Isabella Smith
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And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.
Author:
Terry Zwigoff
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I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
Author:
Steven Wright
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The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
Author:
Herman Wouk
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Author:
Herman Wouk
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
Author:
Terri Windling
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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
Author:
Joe Wilson
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
Author:
Walter Williams
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
Author:
Walter Williams
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A public is a necessary fiction.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
Author:
Edmund White
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
Author:
Eudora Welty
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.
Author:
Margaret Weis
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One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Author:
Mary Ward
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In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
Author:
Mary Ward
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I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
Author:
Lalla Ward
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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
Author:
David Wallace
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I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
Author:
David Wallace
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The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.
Author:
Lindsay Wagner
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
Author:
Larry Wachowski
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
Author:
A. Vogt
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Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
Author:
Vernor Vinge
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
Author:
Vernor Vinge
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Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
Author:
Alfred Vigny
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
Author:
Jeff Vandermeer
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
Author:
Jack Vance
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Author:
Jack Vance
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Author:
John Updike
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I was always attracted to science fiction movies.
Author:
Tina Turner
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Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Author:
Ivana Trump
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There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
Author:
William Trevor
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The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
Author:
William Trevor
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I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
Author:
William Trevor
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To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
Author:
Sheri Tepper
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Science fiction still is an idea genre.
Author:
Sheri Tepper
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The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
Author:
Sheri Tepper
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
Author:
Amy Tan
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I like going back and writing fiction.
Author:
Julia Sweeney
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Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
Author:
Janet Street-Porter
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I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
Author:
Peter Straub
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Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
Author:
Peter Straub
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On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.
Author:
George Stephen
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I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.
Author:
George Stephen
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I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
Author:
George Stephen
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Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
Author:
Saul Steinberg
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As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
Author:
Norman Spinrad
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I don't read fiction at all.
Author:
Brent Spiner
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I don't read Science Fiction.
Author:
Brent Spiner
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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
Author:
Steven Spielberg
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
Author:
Steven Soderbergh
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I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
Author:
John Sladek
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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.
Author:
Curtis Sittenfeld
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I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.
Author:
Marina Sirtis
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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
Author:
Dan Simmons
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Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.
Author:
Joe Shuster
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So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
Author:
Robert Sheckley
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Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
Author:
Robert Sheckley
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I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
Author:
Robert Sheckley
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I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
Author:
Robert Sheckley
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
Author:
Michael Shanks
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Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.
Author:
Ridley Scott
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I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
Author:
Ridley Scott
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With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.
Author:
Dwight Schultz
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And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.
Author:
Stanley Schmidt
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Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
Author:
Richard Savage
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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
Author:
Milton Sapirstein
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
Author:
Walter Salles
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That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.
Author:
Walter Salles
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.
Author:
Jeri Ryan
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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
Author:
Richard Russo
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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
Author:
Richard Russo
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I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.
Author:
David Russell
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
Author:
Rudy Rucker
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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Author:
Rudy Rucker
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One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Author:
Rudy Rucker
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Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
Author:
Rudy Rucker
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
Author:
Karl Rove
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You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
Author:
Tim Roth
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Author:
Leo Rosten
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
Author:
Nora Roberts
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I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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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.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
Author:
Robert Reed
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Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
Author:
Robert Reed
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
Author:
William Randolph
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
Author:
Raymond Queneau
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It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
Author:
Raymond Queneau
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Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
Author:
Raymond Queneau
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
Author:
Reynolds Price
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I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
Author:
Jerry Pournelle
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We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
Author:
Jerry Pournelle
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There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
Author:
Dennis Potter
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A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
Author:
Katherine Porter
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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
Author:
Frederik Pohl
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I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
Author:
Martin Perl
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
Author:
Harvey Pekar
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
Author:
Barney Oliver
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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.
Author:
Sharon Olds
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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
Author:
Ben Okri
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It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.
Author:
Michael O'Donoghue
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Author:
Flannery O'Connor
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
Author:
Bill Nye
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I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.
Author:
Leslie Nielsen
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I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
Author:
Jack Nicholson
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The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.
Author:
Graham Nelson
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In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.
Author:
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
Author:
V. Naipaul
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
Author:
George Murray
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I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.
Author:
George Murray
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Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
Author:
George Murray
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Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
Author:
George Murray
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Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
Author:
Bill Mumy
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The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
Author:
Jason Mraz
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I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
Author:
Joe Morton
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I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.
Author:
Rob Morrow
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I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Author:
Jeanne Moreau
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It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
Author:
Daniel Moran
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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
Author:
Elizabeth Moon
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I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
Author:
Elizabeth Moon
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When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
Author:
Elizabeth Moon
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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Author:
Elizabeth Moon
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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
Author:
Elizabeth Moon
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If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Author:
Matthew Modine
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I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
Author:
John McGahern
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Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.
Author:
Julian May
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I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
Author:
Armistead Maupin
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I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.
Author:
Armistead Maupin
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I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Author:
Peter Matthiessen
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In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.
Author:
Peter Matthiessen
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Author:
Gabriel Marquez
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Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.
Author:
Norman Macleod
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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Author:
Robert Lynd
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Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.
Author:
Robert Lutz
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I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
Author:
Brian Lumley
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I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
Author:
Audre Lorde
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Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.
Author:
Gary Lockwood
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I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
Author:
Penelope Lively
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I rather like getting away from fiction.
Author:
Penelope Lively
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You learn a lot, writing fiction.
Author:
Penelope Lively
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The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
Author:
Penelope Lively
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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
Author:
Penelope Lively
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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Author:
Charles Lint
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I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Author:
Jonathan Lethem
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I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.
Author:
Jonathan Lethem
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My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.
Author:
Jonathan Lethem
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
Author:
Doris Lessing
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In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
Author:
Janet Leigh
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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?
Author:
Tanith Lee
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I've always been interested in science fiction.
Author:
Martin Landau
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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
Author:
Louis L'Amour
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
Author:
Wally Lamb
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I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.
Author:
Tim LaHaye
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I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.
Author:
Tim LaHaye
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And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.
Author:
Tim LaHaye
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New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.
Author:
Tim LaHaye
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
Author:
Lactantius
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I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
Author:
Neil LaBute
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Author:
Stanley Kubrick
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I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.
Author:
Judith Krantz
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And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
Author:
Jerzy Kosinski
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.
Author:
Kenneth Koch
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For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
Author:
Harry Knowles
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I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
Author:
Nigel Kneale
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Author:
Stephen King
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I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
Author:
Daniel Kim
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I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.
Author:
Paul Kane
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I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
Author:
Paul Kane
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Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.
Author:
Paul Kane
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
Author:
James Joyce
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The interplay of DNA echoes stories untold, carving mystery into artistry--every genome a canvas speaks of lineage and essence.
Author:
Clara Johnson
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If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.
Author:
Denis Johnson
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I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
Author:
Kazuo Ishiguro
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It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Author:
Guillermo Infante
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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
Author:
William Hurt
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Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.
Author:
Isabelle Huppert
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Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.
Author:
John Hume
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All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Author:
Richard Hughes
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Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
Author:
Brad Holland
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That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
Author:
Anthony Holden
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I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
Author:
Laura Hillenbrand
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Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Author:
Jimi Hendrix
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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Author:
Heinrich Heine
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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
Author:
John Hawkes
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I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
Author:
John Hawkes
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When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.
Author:
John Hawkes
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Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.
Author:
Frank Harris
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I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
Author:
Laurell Hamilton
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Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.
Author:
Laurell Hamilton
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I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.
Author:
Jessica Hagedorn
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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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Fiction is socially meaningful.
Author:
David Guterson
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That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.
Author:
James Gunn
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In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
Author:
James Gunn
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Author:
Ursula Guin
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
Author:
Philip Guedalla
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I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
Author:
Matt Groening
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I love science fiction.
Author:
Pam Grier
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
Author:
Graham Greene
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It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!
Author:
Terry Goodkind
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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
Author:
Arthur Golden
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I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.
Author:
Mark Goddard
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
Author:
Ira Glass
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
Author:
Ira Glass
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Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
Author:
Hugo Gernsback
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I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.
Author:
Gil Gerard
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If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
Author:
William Gass
