"No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first."
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"There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative."
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"Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period."
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"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use."
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"Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it."
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"I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating."
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"One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures."
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"Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts."
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"Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true."
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"In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others."
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"Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing."
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"The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction."
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"These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same significance to anyone else.] They represent a kind of fiction I would love to pursue more or less constantly, but dare not."
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"I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably strange interplay among human beings that constitutes "scenes" in his plays, and constitutes "story" in prose fiction."
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"I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction."
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"But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time."
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"I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction."
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"The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments."
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"I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction."
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"I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape"
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