Fiction Quotes - Page 29

• And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

  Chinua Achebe

  Adequate, Helping, Theory

  Chinua Achebe (1989). “Hopes and impediments: selected essays”, Doubleday, [1989]

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• The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

  Raymond Carver

  Real, World, Lines

  Raymond Carver, Bob Adelman (1994). “Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver”, Arcade Publishing

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• A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

  Raymond Carver

  Imagination, Temptation, Littles

  Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Writing, Years, Together

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• I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Fantasy Novels, Fiction Novels, Science Fiction

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• I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

  Corey Taylor

  Men, Hands, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

  Kathy Acker

  Lying, Political, Warfare

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Bridges, Potters

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

  David James Duncan

  Writing, Honest, Feels

  David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.189, Triad Institute, Inc.

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• You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

  Lorrie Moore

  Pay, Bills, Instinct

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• No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Reading, Writing, Self

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• Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

  Mark Haddon

  Years, Two, World

  "I'm flattered, amazed, deeply moved and sometimes a little dizzy". Live chat, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2004.

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• The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'. Only egotism exists.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Stars, Light, Race

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• What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Humanity, Poet

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• The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

  Julia Quinn

  Writing, Careers, Expectations

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• The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

  Paul Theroux

  Eye, Writing, Differences

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Money, Book, People

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• Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Art, Entertainment, Kind

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• I base the roles I choose depending on the characters. That's just how I'm gonna run my career. So if it's a good role I'm gonna take it whether it be fantasy, or whether it be realistic or fiction, anything.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Running, Character, Careers

  "EXCLUSIVE: Josh Hutcherson Enters the Bridge to Terabithia". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. June 18, 2007.

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• I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.

  Jennifer Egan

  Reading, Writing, Hands

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

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• The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.

  William Gibson

  People, Way, Culture

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

  William Gibson

  Strong, America, Lists

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry about him, and basically everyone else who was announcing in the year 2000 at midnight, the end of the world is coming, I expect them to be wrong. Now if they're right of course, I'll be very uncomfortable that night. But as long as everyone for 2000 years has been wrong about the apocalypse, I can be quite comfortable with it. It's space fiction.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Night, Years

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Fantasy, Written

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.18, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fantasy, Science Fiction, Happens

  Source: www.avclub.com

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