"Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction."
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"I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good than what I do, there's no point in reading it, if it's better than what I do it makes me depressed"
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"I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets."
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"I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction."
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"Fiction is an improvement on life"
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"People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction."
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"That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I'm better off just making things up."
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"I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing."
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"I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists."
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"An old novel has a history of its own."
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"[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths."
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"I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction."
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"I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors."
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"If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal."
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"Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story."
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"Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth."
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"The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose."
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"[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on."
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"It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian."
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"To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry."
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