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" Quotes and Sayings About fiction

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

Almost Any Believe Call
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

Any Class College Fiction
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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. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.

Based Best Big Character
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Science Fiction Writer Inevitable
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Begin Fiction Form Likely
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Attached Attachment Corners Ever
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Fiction Her Money Must
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Because Fiction Like More
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Chapters Opening Genre Read
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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.

Been Constantly Cultural Fiction
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Art Books Fiction Learn
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

Better Clearer Fiction Saying
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
Fiction Interpret My Own Own
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I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
About Close Detail Enough
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Again All-Time Answer Ask
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

Fiction Horror Human Issue
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Behave Benefit Community Every
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

About Alright Fiction Happened
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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.

Feeling Science fiction Connected Real world
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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.

Future Logical Science fiction
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Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

Normal television Limit Science fiction
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Become Core Critics Crucial
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Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Academic Becoming Cursed Discovered
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In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Came Character Close Everything
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Fiction Result Shall Tell
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Also Always Artist Bunch
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I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

Afternoon Couch Day Dog
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There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Creative Difficult Embrace Few
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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Blame Ego Fiction Gets
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Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Different Each Each Individual Exist
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Fiction Make Sense Stranger
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You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Culture Entertainment Fiction Film
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Difference Hours Fiction Leaves
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Fiction Fear Demands Whether
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Come
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When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

Absolutely Always Apologize Bullying
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Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

Discouraged Encouraged Every EveryTime
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Environments Escapism Fantasy Fascinated
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I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

About Actually Anything Because
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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.

Age Allowed Child Coming
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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.

About Being Fiction Human
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I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

Art Exploring Fiction Human
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

Some dreams Unnatural Contradictions Most romantic
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Past exudes Legend Pure clay No life
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I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

Read fiction Visualizing Every scene The result
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

The joy Reading fiction The novel Belongs
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I wanted to discuss my life with him not as a patient talking to an analyst but as if we were two literary critics discussing a novel.... I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.

Wanted Life Talking Critics
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Read Newspapers Avidly One
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The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

Practice Fiction Dangerous Ideas
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The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories.

The world Fictional characters Their stories
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