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Fiction Quotes

I didn’t have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college Picture Quote #1

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction Picture Quote #1

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published Picture Quote #1

America’s great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end Picture Quote #1

I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when were hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats Picture Quote #1

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition Picture Quote #1

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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction Picture Quote #1

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop Picture Quote #1

Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity Picture Quote #1

From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment Picture Quote #1

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers Picture Quote #1

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer Picture Quote #1

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My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives Picture Quote #1

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past? Picture Quote #1

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there’s no place left for us to be human Picture Quote #1

I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas Picture Quote #1

If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be Picture Quote #1

I never have an alter ego in the movies. That’s a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it’s fun to write that. It gives them something to write Picture Quote #1

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There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that’s life or a scene in a novel. What’s interesting to people, whether it’s memoir or fiction, is the truth Picture Quote #1

I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies Picture Quote #1

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I’m reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing Picture Quote #1

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie Picture Quote #1

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth Picture Quote #1

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it Picture Quote #1

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I’m a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff Picture Quote #1

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you’re alive and you’re a human being Picture Quote #1

Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real Picture Quote #1

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we’re going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That’s the great thing about science fiction Picture Quote #1

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact Picture Quote #1

We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are Picture Quote #1

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I didn’t have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college (Fiction Quotes) I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction (Fiction Quotes) It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published (Fiction Quotes) America’s great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end (Fiction Quotes) I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when were hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats (Fiction Quotes) God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition (Fiction Quotes) I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction (Fiction Quotes) Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop (Fiction Quotes) Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity (Fiction Quotes) From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment (Fiction Quotes) Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers (Fiction Quotes) The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer (Fiction Quotes) My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives (Fiction Quotes) I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past? (Fiction Quotes) If people cannot be flawed in fiction there’s no place left for us to be human (Fiction Quotes) I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas (Fiction Quotes) If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be (Fiction Quotes) I never have an alter ego in the movies. That’s a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it’s fun to write that. It gives them something to write (Fiction Quotes) There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that’s life or a scene in a novel. What’s interesting to people, whether it’s memoir or fiction, is the truth (Fiction Quotes) I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies (Fiction Quotes) I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I’m reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing (Fiction Quotes) It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie (Fiction Quotes) The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth (Fiction Quotes) The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it (Fiction Quotes) I’m a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff (Fiction Quotes) The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you’re alive and you’re a human being (Fiction Quotes) Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real (Fiction Quotes) There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we’re going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That’s the great thing about science fiction (Fiction Quotes) The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact (Fiction Quotes) We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are (Fiction Quotes)

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