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Fiction Quotes

I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there’s nothing out there in fiction about blended families Picture Quote #1

And Shanghai is amazing. I’m a fan of science fiction so when you’re there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it’s like a set in a movie Picture Quote #1

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people Picture Quote #1

Most of my writer friends are women, and they’re all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There’s much to be said. We’re on it, chief Picture Quote #1

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is Picture Quote #1

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it’s the first one I can truly remember Picture Quote #1

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No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I’m from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities Picture Quote #1

I don’t think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that Picture Quote #1

There’s no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. ‘The Wire’ and ‘Deadwood’ and ‘The Sopranos.’ Picture Quote #1

I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro Picture Quote #1

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn’t pick the story; the story has picked me. I’ve written absolutely no fiction before ‘The Immortals of Meluha.’ Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing Picture Quote #1

I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It’s a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I’d rather not hurt Picture Quote #1

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Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I’m interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women Picture Quote #1

We’re so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior Picture Quote #1

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life Picture Quote #1

I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it’s comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator... You’ve got a documentary, I’ve got a voice. Animated films. Big films, small films Picture Quote #1

Most modern science fiction went to school on ‘Dune.’ Even ‘Harry Potter’ with its ‘boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny’ shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion Picture Quote #1

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective Picture Quote #1

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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species Picture Quote #1

Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it’s just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean Picture Quote #1

Whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world Picture Quote #1

I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of ‘Another Kind of Warrior.’ I’d write it beginning to end, but when I’d finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I’d start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16 Picture Quote #1

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction Picture Quote #1

I’ve always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I’ve dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity Picture Quote #1

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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present Picture Quote #1

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would Picture Quote #1

People read legal writing differently. When you’re at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it’s too long and boring Picture Quote #1

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they’re the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters Picture Quote #1

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art Picture Quote #1

I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I’m a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge Picture Quote #1

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I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there’s nothing out there in fiction about blended families. (Fiction Quotes) And Shanghai is amazing. I’m a fan of science fiction so when you’re there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it’s like a set in a movie. (Fiction Quotes) One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people (Fiction Quotes) Most of my writer friends are women, and they’re all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There’s much to be said. We’re on it, chief. (Fiction Quotes) The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is. (Fiction Quotes) Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it’s the first one I can truly remember. (Fiction Quotes) No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I’m from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities. (Fiction Quotes) I don’t think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. (Fiction Quotes) There’s no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. ‘The Wire’ and ‘Deadwood’ and ‘The Sopranos.’ (Fiction Quotes) I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro. (Fiction Quotes) I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn’t pick the story; the story has picked me. I’ve written absolutely no fiction before ‘The Immortals of Meluha.’ Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing. (Fiction Quotes) I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It’s a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I’d rather not hurt. (Fiction Quotes) Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I’m interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women. (Fiction Quotes) We’re so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. (Fiction Quotes) You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life. (Fiction Quotes) I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it’s comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator... You’ve got a documentary, I’ve got a voice. Animated films. Big films, small films. (Fiction Quotes) Most modern science fiction went to school on ‘Dune.’ Even ‘Harry Potter’ with its ‘boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny’ shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion. (Fiction Quotes) I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective. (Fiction Quotes) Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species. (Fiction Quotes) Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it’s just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean. (Fiction Quotes) Whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world (Fiction Quotes) I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of ‘Another Kind of Warrior.’ I’d write it beginning to end, but when I’d finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I’d start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16. (Fiction Quotes) Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction (Fiction Quotes) I’ve always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I’ve dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity. (Fiction Quotes) A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present. (Fiction Quotes) Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. (Fiction Quotes) People read legal writing differently. When you’re at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it’s too long and boring. (Fiction Quotes) I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they’re the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters. (Fiction Quotes) A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art. (Fiction Quotes) I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I’m a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge. (Fiction Quotes)

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