Fiction Quotes - Page 20

• As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977 the bow-wave of publicity for the first Star Wars movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.

  Philip Reeve

  Stars, Children, War

  "Philip Reeve: 'I can't even drive a car, let alone an inter-dimensional phone box'". Interview with Patrick, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2013.

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• I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

  Matt Reeves

  Would Be, Horror, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Brain, Facts, Stranger

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• I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

  "Jamaica Kincaid talks about 'See Now Then'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. February 16, 2013.

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• Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but mind conceived in the Kantian sense. The knowledge of nature is symbolic, and there is no necessary connection between the phenomena and our fictions.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Reality, Mind, Connections

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• Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Mainstream, Reader, Humans

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• Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.

  S. T. Joshi

  Stars, Powerful, Character

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• Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Creating, People, Tools

  "Google's Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever". Interview with Kate Lunau, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2013.

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

  Ray Kurzweil

  Opportunity, Giving, Doe

  "How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

  Harry Crews

  Smart, Believe, Writing

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• I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

  Heather O'Neill

  Unfortunate Things, Childhood, Able

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• Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

  Heather O'Neill

  Children, Believe, Differences

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• Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once youve read, you never look at the world the same way again.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Book, Adventure

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• Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

  Leos Carax

  Editing, Forever, Shooting

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• I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

  Lucy Walker

  Way, Documentaries, Filmmaking

  "‘Crash Reel’ Documentarian Lucy Walker Knows Where She’s Going". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 11, 2013.

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• I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

  Denise Mina

  Feet, Crime, Tricks

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• Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

  Peter Morgan

  Reading, Guy, Littles

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• Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

  Peter Morgan

  Reading, Nonfiction, Pleasure

  "The Six Senses of Peter Morgan". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Principles, May, Accepting

  Dr B.R. Ambedkar (2014). “Annihilation of Caste”, p.61, Ssoft Group, INDIA

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• I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

  Ira Glass

  College, Class, Talent

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• I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.

  Sara Shepard

  Reading, School, Brave New World

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• Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

  Alexandra Kerry

  Stronger, Century, Cumulative

  Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

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• One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

  Hugh Howey

  Fans, Wool, Reader

  "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, And Success". Interview with Eric Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

  Steig Larsson

  Character, Two, People

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• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Thinking, People, Google

  "Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden On the Future of SF Books". Interview with Annalee Newitz, io9.com. August 26, 2009.

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