"Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off."
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"The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium."
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"The truer the facts the better the fiction."
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"There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog."
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"History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction."
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"Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame."
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"There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'"
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"Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth."
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"Real life is much stranger than fiction, man."
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"Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing."
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"In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life."
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"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
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"Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand."
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"Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth."
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"People read fiction for emotion-not information"
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"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
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"Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team."
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"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."
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"Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get."
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"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet."
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