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Fiction Quotes

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

Pain Pleasure Fiction Own Distress

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

Character Write Always Fiction Who

That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!

Michael Connelly

Writing Easy Journalism Over Fiction

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

Writing Finishing Fiction

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Smart Write Decide Fiction Since

I loved the fact that Mitch Coleborn wasn't on my radar for 'Stranger than Fiction' until he sent 10 waves of himself to us. Then he went from unknown to having a great section in the movie.

Great Waves Loved Unknown Fiction

A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.

Kind Fiction Existential Got Dealing

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

Writing Story Way Tell Spy Fiction

With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened.

Focus Stress You Skin Want Fiction

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

Christian Belief Begin Fiction Did

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

Family Think Encouragement Fiction

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

Write Fiction Side Tried I Tried

I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.

Day I Can Three Write Two Fiction

I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.

Think Reason Hunger Fiction Just

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Truth Lie Inside Fiction

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

Great Will Fiction Books Continue

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

Life Nothing More Fiction Absurd

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Enough Meaningful Fiction Narrative

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

Steven Heighton

Experience Touch Always Fiction

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

Circumstances Human Study Fiction

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.

Penelope Lively

Writing Know Strange More Fiction

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

Octavia E. Butler

Science Me Writing Stop Fiction

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

History Thinking Beyond Line Fiction

I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.

Green Enjoy Play Hong Kong Fiction

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