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Fiction Quotes

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.

Writing Think Fiction I Think Jerry

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Reality Need Fiction Role Almost He

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Science Ideas You Play Turn Fiction

A lot of science fiction is very accessible and very readable, but a lot of people are justifiably put off by the covers of spaceships - though that never put me off.

Alastair Reynolds

Science People Me Never Fiction Off

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

Think Body Three Two Fiction Seek

Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.

Karin Slaughter

World True Crime Fiction Narrative

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.

Good Habit Mind Bad Moral Fiction

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Vladimir Nabokov

World Masterpiece Fiction Original

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Color Think Fiction Than I Think

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

Talent College Class Fiction Took

I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder.

Age Romantic Believe Romance Fiction

The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the truth. No one likes being outright lied to, even in fiction.

Sarah Pinborough

Truth Always Tell Fiction Rule Must

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

Richard Attenborough

Great Shame Fiction Deal Classics

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

Think Military Fiction Exciting

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Life Whatever Fiction Believer Works

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.

Virtue Craft Fiction Idea Writer

I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems dated and has lost much of its value.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Today Value Lost Everything Fiction

I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.

Friendship Women Men Think Fiction

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Time Best First Kid Fiction Prime

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

Opportunity Science Great Me Fiction

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Martin McDonagh

Good Amazing Fiction Film Made Pulp

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Work Mind Strange Land Fiction West

I like going back and writing fiction.

Writing Back Fiction Going Like

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

Truth Trying Kind Write Fiction

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