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Tag Name "Fiction" (2115)

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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 fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.
Dan Chaon
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Dorothy Allison
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Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
Harry Turtledove
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Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.
Ben H. Winters
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Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
John Cheever
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Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.
John Dufresne
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Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.
Ben Marcus
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Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.
Cynthia Ozick
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Fiction novels, that's my game.
David Benioff
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
Barbara Kingsolver
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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 structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
Bonnie Friedman
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Vikram Seth
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Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.
Tom Bailey
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
Vernon Reid
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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 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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Fiction creating reality.
Paul Auster
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