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• Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Dog, Long, Personality

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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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• 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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• Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

  John Hume

  Age, Curriculum, Awful

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

  Buddy Ebsen

  Writing, Long, Paper

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

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• Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Scary, Atheism

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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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• Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Cease, Experimentation

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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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• I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

  Richard Attenborough

  Shame, Deals

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

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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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• 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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• 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 want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

  Steven Spielberg

  Science, Want, Science Fiction

  "Spielberg In The Twilight Zone" by Lisa Kennedy, www.wired.com. June 1, 2002.

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• In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Science, Reality, Tests

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• The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

  Tom Clancy

  Life, Witty, Truth

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

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• Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  People, Folks, Seems

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• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Inspirational Life, Wonder

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Literature, World, Journalism

  "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", All Things Considered, 1908.

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• For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Men, Mind

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - books 1 and 2 (illustrated)”, p.66, The Planet

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• Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

  Piers Anthony

  Fun, Tape, Firsts

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• Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Painful, Duty

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.740, GENERAL PRESS

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• It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

  Martin Rees

  Fun, Firsts, Rate

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