"There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative."

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"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on."

Buddy Ebsen, American Actor

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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."

Stanley Schmidt, American Writer

Fiction, Now, Writers

"Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to 'cleaning' as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings " and anyway, she didn't need to know her mark's entire pedigree or life's story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read " on those rare occasions " her books were always dog-eared from the back."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

John Cheever, American Writer

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"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."

Anita Diament, American Author

Fiction, Trying

"It all floats down here!"

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Fear, Mystery, Darkness, Horror

"Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground."

Patricia Highsmith, American Novelist

Fiction, Feet

"Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about."

Sanhita Baruah, Indian Writer

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"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."

John Green, American Author

Fiction, Novel, Reality, Truth, Life

"In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds."

Kit Carson, American Explorer

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"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

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"In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment."

Life

"Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing."

People

"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."

Reason

"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

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"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."

History

"I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks."

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"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on."

"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."

"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."

"It all floats down here!"

"Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground."

"Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about."

"In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds."

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"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

"In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment."

"Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing."

"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."

"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."

"I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks."

"I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad."

"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."

"I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech."