Quotes 141 till 152 of 152.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
A Plea for Eros (2007) 41 -
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
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No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
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