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Fiction Quotes
Quotes on storytelling, imagination, and the craft of fiction.
A common thread here is fiction as its own self-contained world, one built to feel true on its own terms rather than to mirror reality exactly. That creative independence connects with Fiction Writing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cards
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One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them frequently.
- Decide
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
- Bounded
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
- Full-Time
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I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
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I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
- Favorite Movie
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'Pulp Fiction' is my favorite movie of all time.
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I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.
- Science
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Science fiction is not formulaic.
- Everything
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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I love science fiction.
- Life
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I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.
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My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
- Crime Fiction
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I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.
- Real
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