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Fiction Quotes

A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying.

Great Hands Trying Fiction Tried

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

Empathy Create Stranger Fiction

I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars' fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it was part of my childhood.

Jared Padalecki

Childhood Movies Watching Up Fiction

I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune,' and 'Watership Down' and 'The Lord Of The Rings.'

Science Down Science Fiction Fiction

I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian.

Fiction Read Italian Tend Mostly

I read a lot of fiction.

Fiction Read Lot

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

Love Music Performance Doing Fiction

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Life Real Fiction Real Life Than

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

Voice Talk More Fiction Nonfiction

Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven by individual authors, with individual concerns.

Work Science Science Fiction Fiction

Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.

Women Alive Heels Fiction May

Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.

Laura van den Berg

Love Truth Create Kind Fiction Own

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

Imagination Way Fiction Voices Only

I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form of a spy novel, but it leads readers into a world of Kafkaesque irrationality.

World You Way My Own Fiction Own

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

Great Me Writing Way Fiction Prose

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

Great Always Fiction English Had

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

Love Cool Think Finding Way Fiction

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.

Moment Me Universe Short Fiction

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Dorothy Allison

Truth Meaning Fiction Lies Piece

Traditional fiction has a little bit of spatial exploration but is basically a question of time - the question is, what happens next?

Time Exploration Question Fiction

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

Jennifer Weiner

Women Men More Fiction Bigger Get

My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.

Writing Feeling Kind Fantasy Fiction

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Parents Rebellion Become Fiction

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

Truth Truth Is Reality Why Fiction

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