"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."
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"For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."
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"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."
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"The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can."
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"I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in."
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"I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being."
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"All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new."
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"Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives."
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"Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a writer can make a mark and change an aspect of the world - much more so than in fiction."
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"All fiction is autobiographical fantasy."
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"You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me."
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"Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum."
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"What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth."
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"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic."
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"What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world."
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"Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism."
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"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
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"In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you."
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"I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction."
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"I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book."
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