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Fiction Quotes

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn’t write a good poem... And then it actually wasn’t so bad Picture Quote #1

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I’ll watch almost everything Picture Quote #1

That’s the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth Picture Quote #1

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it’s there, and you just reach up and pick it Picture Quote #1

Ray Donovan’ was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter Picture Quote #1

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way Picture Quote #1

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Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it’s not science, it’s an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers Picture Quote #1

Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It’s inevitable how that happens, but it’s generic. Say I’ve written a story where my sister dies. ‘Well, did your sister die?’ No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction Picture Quote #1

It’s hard to get justice in the real world. It’s possible in fiction Picture Quote #1

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow Picture Quote #1

I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa Picture Quote #1

How do you document real life, when real life’s getting more like fiction each day, Picture Quote #1

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Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor Picture Quote #1

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in Picture Quote #1

Better to have a small role in God’s story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction Picture Quote #1

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science Picture Quote #1

I don’t like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix Picture Quote #1

Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters’ individual experiences to speak personally to us all Picture Quote #1

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LAURA ATCHISON, Author of What Would A Wise Woman Do?, on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester:Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love Picture Quote #1

No Sweetness Here’ is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you Picture Quote #1

It’s always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal Picture Quote #1

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity Picture Quote #1

For books, I don’t read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science Picture Quote #1

To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but vital only insofar as such detail is in the service of a richly imagined story, rather than in the service of good botany or good philosophy or good geography Picture Quote #1

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Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep Picture Quote #1

Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story Picture Quote #1

Abundant choice doesn’t force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction Picture Quote #1

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren’t all that great) Picture Quote #1

People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they’ll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read Picture Quote #1

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination Picture Quote #1

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I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn’t write a good poem... And then it actually wasn’t so bad. (Fiction Quotes) My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I’ll watch almost everything. (Fiction Quotes) That’s the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth. (Fiction Quotes) For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it’s there, and you just reach up and pick it. (Fiction Quotes) Ray Donovan’ was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter. (Fiction Quotes) I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way. (Fiction Quotes) Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it’s not science, it’s an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers. (Fiction Quotes) Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It’s inevitable how that happens, but it’s generic. Say I’ve written a story where my sister dies. ‘Well, did your sister die?’ No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction. (Fiction Quotes) It’s hard to get justice in the real world. It’s possible in fiction. (Fiction Quotes) Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. (Fiction Quotes) I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa. (Fiction Quotes) How do you document real life, when real life’s getting more like fiction each day, (Fiction Quotes) Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor. (Fiction Quotes) Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in. (Fiction Quotes) Better to have a small role in God’s story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction. (Fiction Quotes) I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science. (Fiction Quotes) I don’t like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix. (Fiction Quotes) Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters’ individual experiences to speak personally to us all. (Fiction Quotes) LAURA ATCHISON, Author of What Would A Wise Woman Do?, on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester:Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love. (Fiction Quotes) No Sweetness Here’ is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you. (Fiction Quotes) It’s always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. (Fiction Quotes) I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity. (Fiction Quotes) For books, I don’t read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science (Fiction Quotes) To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but vital only insofar as such detail is in the service of a richly imagined story, rather than in the service of good botany or good philosophy or good geography. (Fiction Quotes) Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. (Fiction Quotes) Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story (Fiction Quotes) Abundant choice doesn’t force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction. (Fiction Quotes) Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren’t all that great). (Fiction Quotes) People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they’ll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read. (Fiction Quotes) This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination. (Fiction Quotes)

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