Fiction Quotes - Page 22

• A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Book, Voice, Pleasure

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• It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Book, Writing, Years

  "National Book Award Winner Cynthia Kadohata on Self-Editing: 'It involves a lot of flailing around.'". Interview with Maryann Yin, www.adweek.com. November 25, 2013.

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• In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.

  Sarah MacLean

  Real, Hero, Love Life

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• I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when were hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

  Michael Koryta

  Real, Thinking, Ebb And Flow

  "Sanctuary Of Suspense: A Lighthouse On 'The Ridge'". "Weekend Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 10, 2011.

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• My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

  Cynthia Breazeal

  Stars, War, Memorable

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• Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

  Robert Boswell

  Nice, Writing, People

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• I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.

  Susan Choi

  Writing, Trying, Littles

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• [Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.

  Ali Smith

  Thinking, Pieces, Crafts

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• I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

  Francine Prose

  Thinking, Dramatic, Poet

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• Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

  John Clute

  Location, Titles, Bookstores

  "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.

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• Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.

  John Clute

  Writing, Views, Innovation

  "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.

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• For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, People, Letters

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• A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

  Peter Temple

  Hero, Writing, Personality

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• I just love historical fiction.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Historical, Historical Fiction

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• Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Powerful, Teaching, Iraq

  "Author Q&A: Miguel Syjuco revisits the Philippines' troubled past in Ilustrado". Interview with Brian Lynch, www.straight.com. October 28, 2010.

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• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Adventure, Appreciate

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

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Common, Belief

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• Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to call him so' you vill understand, sir, that that means, 'if he vill allow me to keep up that 'ere pleasant and uniwersal fiction.'

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.

  Nicholas Royle

  Writing, Past, Poetry

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• A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Reality, Machines, Social

  "A Cyborg Manifesto". Book by Donna Jeanne Haraway, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1984.

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• The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!

  Tasha Alexander

  Queens, Historical, Triumph

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• For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.

  Regina Doman

  Years, Catholic, Hearing

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• I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

  David Nicholls

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

  Noah Baumbach

  Art, Ideas, Heat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.

  David Brin

  Character, Doe, Voyages

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