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Fiction Quotes

The documentaries I made were never normal documentaries. They were about subjects I was obsessed with, and I suppose I thought I could sculpt them. What I think I do with my fiction is the same.

Pawel Pawlikowski

Think Thought Never Same Fiction

Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

Story Fantasy Real Two Fiction Seem

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

I Am More Fiction Big Big Fan Fan

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

Love Women Smart I Am Me Fiction

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Literature Create Way Fiction Status

As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.

Madhur Bhandarkar

Life Journey Facts More Up Fiction

Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

Time Fiction Discouraged Nonfiction

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

Alexander McCall Smith

Writing Fiction Sit Just Really

Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.

Time Fiction Use

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Science Science Fiction Fiction Sake

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.

Romesh Gunesekera

Time Me Writing Urgency Fiction Act

The idea of a computer winning the Nobel Prize for physics is not too unlikely, citing a computer as joint recipient. It's obviously not a huge leap to think of something similar happening in fiction.

Alastair Reynolds

Winning Think Physics Leap Fiction

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.

Heart Art Fire Spark Lost Fiction

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

Karen Thompson Walker

Me Stand Learn Look More Fiction

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

Me You Said Want Write Fiction

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Life Spider Fiction Web Still Four

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Business Questions Ask Fiction Them

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

Go Want Write Fiction Different

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

Believe Reality Illusion Fiction

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

Raymond Queneau

Value Story True Fiction Historical

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.

Yourself Go Way Fiction Days Few

I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.

Writing Crime First Fiction Books

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

Watching Taste Fiction Things Films

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

Good Writing Fiction Wonderful Books

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