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Fiction Quotes
"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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"It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past."
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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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"I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction."
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"I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction."
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"If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine."
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"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
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"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."
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"I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it."
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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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"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
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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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"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."
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"A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves."
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"She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and letting her glance fall naturally on a patch of earth which, if she had been in any decent narrative, should have contained the book.It didn't."
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"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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"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."
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"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."
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"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
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"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."
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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?"
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"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
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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."
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"If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?"
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"Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction."
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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."
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"I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer."
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"Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish."
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"Where do you think they've gone?' he said.'Where what?' said Lady Ramkin, temporarily halted.'The dragons. You know. Errol and his wi - female.''Oh, somewhere isolated and rocky, I should imagine,' said Lady Ramkin. 'Favourite country for dragons.''But it - she's a magical animal,' said Vimes. 'What'll happen when the magic goes away?'Lady Ramkin gave him a shy smile.'Most people seem to manage,' she said.She reached across the table and touched his hand."
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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."
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"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
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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."
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