Quotes 41 till 60 of 152.
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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.
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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
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I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
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I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.
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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
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