Fiction Quotes - Page 28

• I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot of things for me to try to get right at once, and rules help me to stay organized. But my favorite rule of all is that, ultimately, there are no rules.

  Bruce Holland Rogers

  Writing, Advice, Trying

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• fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Historian

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• The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Lying, Spurs, Details

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Thinking, Pieces, Way

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• Nobodys life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

  Ruth Glick

  Life Is

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• If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Justice, Diversity, Allies

  "Fiction’s Big, White Problem" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

  Ben Browder

  Science Fiction, Hard

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• If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

  Albert Brooks

  Hunting, Serial Killer, Looks

  "Interview: Albert Brooks Sees Into the Future" by Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2011.

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• I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

  Wesley Snipes

  Men, Black, Vortex

  "Wesley Snipes is Ready To Pay" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. March 29, 2010.

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• Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Debtors, Literature, Novel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.274, Bantam Classics

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• You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

  Kim Stanley

  Writing, Perspective, Trying

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• I can remember when Pulp Fiction came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Impact, Years, Remember

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• I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

  Darlene Cates

  Roles, Comedy, Fats

  "'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' Actress Losses 250 lbs, Wants to Act Again". Interview, www.worstpreviews.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

  Hill Harper

  Believe, Reality, Tvs

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• The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

  William March

  Underrated, Contemporary, American Writer

  William March, William T. Going, Richard Brough (2011). “99 Fables”, p.20, University of Alabama Press

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• They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel.

  Dennis Miller

  Civilization, Cartoon, Rooms

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• We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Queens, Tired, Reality

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• I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.

  Allen Covert

  Summer, Kids, House

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• I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

  Kirby Bliss Blanton

  World, Want, Scripts

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• To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Littles, Honest, Korean

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• After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

  Michelle Moran

  People, Historical, Tradition

  Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.1319, Broadway Books

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• Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

  Robin Wasserman

  Teenager, Matter, Argument

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• A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction and movies and books. So I go to them either as a celebrity, or as a fan, because I'm a big sci-fi geek.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Book, Fans, Culture

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• Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.

  A. S. Byatt

  Lying, Book, Air

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• Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

  John Mica

  Trying, Sometimes, Novel

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