"The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction."
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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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"Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction."
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"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."
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"Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality."
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"I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining."
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"Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive."
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"Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction"
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"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention."
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"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof."
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"Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction."
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"We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence."
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"They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel."
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"Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach."
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"I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction."
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"Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention."
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"Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing."
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"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it."
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"Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction."
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"Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good."
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