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Tag Name "Fiction" (2129)

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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
Jasper Fforde
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Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
James Rollins
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Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.
Annie Dillard
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
Gertrude Atherton
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Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.
Anita Brookner
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Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in the university, and so on. They seem more disconnected from each other than they did when I first began to write.
Robert Hass
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Fiction is always really a labor.
Ann Patchett
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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
William H. Gass
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Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.
William Henry Maule
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Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.
Eudora Welty
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
Yann Martel
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Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.
Rebecca West
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Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.
Nick Antosca
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
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Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.
Alfred Bertram Guthrie
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Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that what is to be evoked - character, experience, idea - is worthy of his or her consideration, intellectual energy, close attention.
Alice McDermott
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Alice Walker
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Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life
Martin Amis
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Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.
Margaret Culkin Banning
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Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.
Ruth Ozeki
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Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.
Robertson Davies
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
Jonathan Franzen
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Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.
Marilynne Robinson
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