Fiction

Lauren Oliver Author

Fiction

"They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all. But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along."

Lying Choices Fiction

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Lee Child Author

Fiction

"The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today."

Today Imagination Fiction

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor

Fiction

"In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction."

Fiction Used Theory Of Evolution

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist

Fiction

"Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction."

Fiction Truth Is Stranger

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Julian Barnes Author

Fiction

"The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur."

May Focus Fiction

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Lucy Walker Artist

Fiction

"I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way."

Way Fiction Documentaries

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Elif Safak Author

Fiction

"Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations. The other, in nuances. One draws boundaries. The other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks. Fiction is flowing water."

Water Fiction Identity Politics

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist

Fiction

"Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction."

Mean Character Fiction

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer

Fiction

"The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth."

Fiction Honest Aim

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist

Fiction

"I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer."

Writing Fiction Preacher

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Terry Pratchett Author

Fiction

"I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first."

Firsts Fiction Astronomy

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Robert Morgan Poet, Novelist

Fiction

"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."

Language Fiction Invisible

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Stephen King Author

Fiction

"The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own."

Writing Fiction Paragraph

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Robert Stone Novelist

Fiction

"There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’"

Art Real Fiction

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author

Fiction

"Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival"."

Fiction Survival Moral Behavior

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist

Fiction

"Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction."

Art Fiction Average

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker

Fiction

"The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction."

Doe Imagination Fiction

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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author

Fiction

"What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the constraints of storytelling. And I have narrowly defined storytelling."

Moving Stories Fiction

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Ovid Poet

Fiction

"I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction."

Facts Speak Fiction

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Francis Ford Coppola Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Fiction

"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue."

Writing Jobs Fiction

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