Quotes 121 till 140 of 152.
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The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
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The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 38 -
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
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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.
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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
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When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
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When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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