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Fiction Quotes

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people Picture Quote #1

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It’s a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing Picture Quote #1

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years Picture Quote #1

Acting in more science fiction films would be fine by me. I love doing them Picture Quote #1

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it! Picture Quote #1

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it’s relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what Picture Quote #1

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Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone’s actual life experience Picture Quote #1

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence Picture Quote #1

Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling Picture Quote #1

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors Picture Quote #1

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book Picture Quote #1

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children’s writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull Picture Quote #1

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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their ‘subjects’ and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn’t by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs Picture Quote #1

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he’d done it for a living Picture Quote #1

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that’s so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures Picture Quote #1

Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money Picture Quote #1

It’s fair to say that white America wouldn’t have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as ‘serious.’ Picture Quote #1

The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner Picture Quote #1

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I’ve read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, ‘The Lost Wife’ is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book Picture Quote #1

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can’t read that Picture Quote #1

There’s something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring Picture Quote #1

Harry Potter’ made it cool to read children’s fiction, and ‘Twilight’ did the same for a slightly older age group. What I’m seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books Picture Quote #1

By the time I was twenty-three, I’d given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn’t return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did Picture Quote #1

In any genre you’re working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact Picture Quote #1

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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I’m also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions Picture Quote #1

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future 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

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I’ve fed into my fiction Picture Quote #1

I’m sure there’s an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer Picture Quote #1

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can’t talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful Picture Quote #1

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Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people (Fiction Quotes) For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It’s a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing (Fiction Quotes) Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years (Fiction Quotes) Acting in more science fiction films would be fine by me. I love doing them (Fiction Quotes) I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it! (Fiction Quotes) Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it’s relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what (Fiction Quotes) Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone’s actual life experience. (Fiction Quotes) However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence. (Fiction Quotes) Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling. (Fiction Quotes) I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors. (Fiction Quotes) There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book. (Fiction Quotes) Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children’s writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull. (Fiction Quotes) As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their ‘subjects’ and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn’t by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs. (Fiction Quotes) One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he’d done it for a living. (Fiction Quotes) I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that’s so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. (Fiction Quotes) Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money. (Fiction Quotes) It’s fair to say that white America wouldn’t have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as ‘serious.’ (Fiction Quotes) The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner. (Fiction Quotes) I’ve read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, ‘The Lost Wife’ is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book. (Fiction Quotes) So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can’t read that. (Fiction Quotes) There’s something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring. (Fiction Quotes) Harry Potter’ made it cool to read children’s fiction, and ‘Twilight’ did the same for a slightly older age group. What I’m seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books. (Fiction Quotes) By the time I was twenty-three, I’d given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn’t return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did. (Fiction Quotes) In any genre you’re working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact. (Fiction Quotes) My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I’m also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions. (Fiction Quotes) I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future. (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) Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I’ve fed into my fiction. (Fiction Quotes) I’m sure there’s an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer. (Fiction Quotes) Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can’t talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. (Fiction Quotes)

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