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Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.
Terry Brooks
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There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
Terry Brooks
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To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour.
Gerhard Richter
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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
J. G. Ballard
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
O. Henry
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Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.
James Gunn
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It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction... Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.
John Dos Passos
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Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."
Jodi Picoult
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
Flannery O'Connor
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Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.
Pseudonymous Bosch
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Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs—religious, political and social. It is a record of growth and development from generation to generation.
Pauline Hopkins
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A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
Orson Scott Card
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Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I, the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.
Swami Vivekananda
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I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
Don DeLillo
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Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction
Charles Spurgeon
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All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.
Martin Amis
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The point is that the techniques are pretty much the same in fiction and nonfiction.
Geoff Dyer
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In the stories that began to circulate about me, I should have seen ample warning that the printed word is not always the whole truth. It didn't occur to me that I would spend part of my life after the war trying to sort out facts from fiction.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I see fiction not as the construction of an alternate world but as what your imagination gives you from the real world.
Hilton Als
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The contradictions and the awkwardness—that's what gives historical fiction its value.
Hilary Mantel
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There's this strange schizophrenia in American publishing between fiction and nonfiction.
John Dos Passos
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through.
Joan Didion
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History and fiction must complement one another.
Heinrich Böll
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In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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