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Fiction Quotes

I read anything I saw lying around. Pulp fiction, great literature and everything in between - I gave them all the same rough treatment Picture Quote #1

As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience Picture Quote #1

...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn’t SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well Picture Quote #1

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings Picture Quote #1

It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth Picture Quote #1

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That’s why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog Picture Quote #1

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I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we’re not writing journalism when we’re making literature Picture Quote #1

I’ve spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it’s genre and therefore can’t be seen as literature Picture Quote #1

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination Picture Quote #1

I don’t remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel Picture Quote #1

Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre Picture Quote #1

We’ve had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we’ve had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it’s all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West Picture Quote #1

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There’s more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you’re writing a science fiction novel, there’s probably some speculative technology in it. You’ll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way Picture Quote #1

I don’t write tracts, I write novels. I’m not a preacher, I’m a fiction writer Picture Quote #1

While writing a novel, I don’t read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed Picture Quote #1

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts Picture Quote #1

I wrote a novel. It’s called ‘The Middlesteins.’ It’s fiction. It’s not a memoir. I’m not a spokesperson Picture Quote #1

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms Picture Quote #1

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Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message Picture Quote #1

I’m writing another novel and I know what I’m going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction Picture Quote #1

I used to read only fiction. Now I don’t read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel Picture Quote #1

I ventured into fiction in 1988 with ‘What Love Sees,’ a biographical novel of a woman’s unwavering determination to lead a full life despite blindness Picture Quote #1

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by ‘real life’ I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is ‘real’ Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t aware I’d write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering Picture Quote #1

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Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can’t deliver Picture Quote #1

I’m not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I’m 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that’s what fiction is, and should be Picture Quote #1

I started in this racket in the early 70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of Picture Quote #1

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling Picture Quote #1

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have Picture Quote #1

I don’t think I’ve had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me Picture Quote #1

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I read anything I saw lying around. Pulp fiction, great literature and everything in between - I gave them all the same rough treatment. (Fiction Quotes) As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience. (Fiction Quotes) ...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn’t SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well. (Fiction Quotes) [Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. (Fiction Quotes) It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. (Fiction Quotes) Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That’s why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog. (Fiction Quotes) I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we’re not writing journalism when we’re making literature. (Fiction Quotes) I’ve spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it’s genre and therefore can’t be seen as literature. (Fiction Quotes) Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination. (Fiction Quotes) I don’t remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel. (Fiction Quotes) Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre. (Fiction Quotes) We’ve had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we’ve had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it’s all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West. (Fiction Quotes) There’s more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you’re writing a science fiction novel, there’s probably some speculative technology in it. You’ll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way. (Fiction Quotes) I don’t write tracts, I write novels. I’m not a preacher, I’m a fiction writer. (Fiction Quotes) While writing a novel, I don’t read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. (Fiction Quotes) Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts. (Fiction Quotes) I wrote a novel. It’s called ‘The Middlesteins.’ It’s fiction. It’s not a memoir. I’m not a spokesperson. (Fiction Quotes) But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. (Fiction Quotes) Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message. (Fiction Quotes) I’m writing another novel and I know what I’m going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction. (Fiction Quotes) I used to read only fiction. Now I don’t read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel. (Fiction Quotes) I ventured into fiction in 1988 with ‘What Love Sees,’ a biographical novel of a woman’s unwavering determination to lead a full life despite blindness. (Fiction Quotes) Successful fiction does not need to be validated by ‘real life’ I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is ‘real’. (Fiction Quotes) I wasn’t aware I’d write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering. (Fiction Quotes) Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can’t deliver. (Fiction Quotes) I’m not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I’m 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that’s what fiction is, and should be. (Fiction Quotes) I started in this racket in the early 70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. (Fiction Quotes) The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. (Fiction Quotes) It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. (Fiction Quotes) I don’t think I’ve had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me. (Fiction Quotes)

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