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Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. Brian Aldiss | top
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. Francis Bacon | top
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. J. G. Ballard | top
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People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction. Cecilia Bartoli | top
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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. Harold Brodkey | top
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I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again. Chester Brown | top
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. Lord Byron | top
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. Vincent Canby | top
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For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction. Iris Chang | top
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It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with? Vin Diesel | top
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. E. L. Doctorow | top
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. Carl Clinton Van Doren | top
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The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess. Tracey Emin | top
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. Ursula K. Le Guin | top
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That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. James Gunn | top
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A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on. Anthony Holden | top
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New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God. Tim LaHaye | top
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously. Wally Lamb | top
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. Doris Lessing | top
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I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction. George Murray | top
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. Marquis de Sade | top
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Science fiction is very healthy in its form. Robert Sheckley | top
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See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. John Sladek | top
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On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance. George Stephen | top
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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? Alfred de Vigny | top