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Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget  (Fiction Quotes) 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  (Fiction Quotes) I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction  (Fiction Quotes) I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life  (Fiction Quotes) Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it  (Fiction Quotes) 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  (Fiction Quotes) 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  (Fiction Quotes) 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  (Fiction Quotes) 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  (Fiction Quotes) Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?  (Fiction Quotes) The fact that it’s science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do  (Fiction Quotes) Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life  (Fiction Quotes) I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I’m writing I don’t like to read other fiction  (Fiction Quotes) Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge  (Fiction Quotes) Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies  (Fiction Quotes) Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this  (Fiction Quotes) I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer  (Fiction Quotes) Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don’t write fiction  (Fiction Quotes) Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express  (Fiction Quotes) All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn’t  (Fiction Quotes) I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn’t all that important to me  (Fiction Quotes) Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world  (Fiction Quotes) If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely  (Fiction Quotes) If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting’s composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background  (Fiction Quotes) My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn’t mean they have no nasty side, or that they don’t have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don’t think most people are trying to be horrible  (Fiction Quotes) My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only  (Fiction Quotes) I want to do some fiction writing, I’ve had some pretty good luck with short stories, I’d like to do a couple of larger things  (Fiction Quotes) As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative  (Fiction Quotes) Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect  (Fiction Quotes) Fiction isn’t made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths  (Fiction Quotes)
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