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• I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Bored, Way

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• I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Literature, Biographies, Fables

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Writing, Pieces

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.117, Open Road Media

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• It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Attachment, Rich

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.131, Macmillan

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• Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Stories

  Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.398, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.
  
  The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Artist, Novelists, Doe

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.10, Penguin

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• Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Talking, Civilization

  Brown Daily Herald, March 24, 1995.

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• I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

  Nigel Kneale

  Writing, Saws, Science Fiction

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• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  Ira Glass

  Character, Emotional, Thinking

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Film, Enough, Visuals

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• Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Unique, Roles, Facts

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• Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Sex, Book, Sleep

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• I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Literature, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

  Tim LaHaye

  People, Special, Would Be

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• It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

  Piers Anthony

  Writing, Would Be, Input

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• For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Thinking, People, Important

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• People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

  John Cheever

  Philosophy, People, Confusion

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• Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Creative, Impossible

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• The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Marriage, Mother, Ideals

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Dream, Ideas, Competition

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• I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Travel, Biographies, Mathematics

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• Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

  John M. Ford

  Games, Creating, Surfing

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• The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

  Frederik Pohl

  Dissection, Method, Reconstruction

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• In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Writing, Black, Ink

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• I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

  Al Sharpton

  Philosophy, People, Biographies

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