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Fiction Quotes
"His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction."
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"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
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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."
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"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
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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."
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"I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me."
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"But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to write my own characters or my own worlds -- I don't care about them. . . . I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing."
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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."
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"What we've got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
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"There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic. It is almost as though the town knows the evil was coming and the shape it would take."
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"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
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"A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay."
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"Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. Sooner juggle torches in a tar pit than mess with real magic. Sooner lie down in front of a thousand elephants."
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"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
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"He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals."
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"I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics."
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"And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions."
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"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."
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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."
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"I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time."
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"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."
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"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."
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"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."
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"Uh...are we going to talk about what just happened?" Victoria asked as Drake stepped over to Finn's desk to look at the map layout of the cemetery, seemingly calm about the fact that Bo and Nyx had just disappeared into thin air."
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"There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction."
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"I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it."
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"It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it."
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"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."
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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."
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"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
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