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Fiction Quotes

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer Picture Quote #1

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction Picture Quote #1

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy Picture Quote #1

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post Picture Quote #1

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government Picture Quote #1

I just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today isn’t art Picture Quote #1

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Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down Picture Quote #1

I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places Picture Quote #1

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn’t write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life Picture Quote #1

I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started mining again is, for lack of a better word, magic. It’s the way you can brush up against the inexplicable and the mystical Picture Quote #1

I enjoy women’s conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction Picture Quote #1

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event Picture Quote #1

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Some people, when they’re called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression Picture Quote #1

When I’m up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction Picture Quote #1

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction Picture Quote #1

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn’t always have time to do or say the right things Picture Quote #1

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it Picture Quote #1

I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I’m definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up Picture Quote #1

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Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It’s very contemporary Picture Quote #1

I never did write a biography, and I don’t exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction Picture Quote #1

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don’t own Picture Quote #1

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us Picture Quote #1

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us Picture Quote #1

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together Picture Quote #1

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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism Picture Quote #1

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention Picture Quote #1

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it Picture Quote #1

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore Picture Quote #1

A poet’s mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy Picture Quote #1

Without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold Picture Quote #1

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The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer (Fiction Quotes) It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction (Fiction Quotes) Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy (Fiction Quotes) Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post (Fiction Quotes) The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government (Fiction Quotes) I just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today isn’t art (Fiction Quotes) Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down (Fiction Quotes) I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places (Fiction Quotes) For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn’t write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life (Fiction Quotes) I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started mining again is, for lack of a better word, magic. It’s the way you can brush up against the inexplicable and the mystical (Fiction Quotes) I enjoy women’s conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction (Fiction Quotes) As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event (Fiction Quotes) Some people, when they’re called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression (Fiction Quotes) When I’m up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction (Fiction Quotes) Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction (Fiction Quotes) Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn’t always have time to do or say the right things (Fiction Quotes) Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it (Fiction Quotes) I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I’m definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up (Fiction Quotes) Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It’s very contemporary (Fiction Quotes) I never did write a biography, and I don’t exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction (Fiction Quotes) Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don’t own (Fiction Quotes) I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us (Fiction Quotes) Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us (Fiction Quotes) Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together (Fiction Quotes) By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism (Fiction Quotes) Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention (Fiction Quotes) Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it (Fiction Quotes) Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore (Fiction Quotes) A poet’s mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy (Fiction Quotes) Without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold (Fiction Quotes)

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