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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it. Diane Ackerman

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Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction. Dinaw Mengestu

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Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember. Dinaw Mengestu

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. Donald Barthelme

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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction. Donna Tartt

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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. Doris Lessing

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Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden. Dorothy Allison

I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. Duncan Jones

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Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city. Duncan Jones

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I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction. Duncan Jones

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The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more willing to open themselves up and allow themselves to be questioned and have their values questioned when they don't think we're talking about their world or them and what they're used to. Duncan Jones

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A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention. Dylan Moran

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I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets. Dylan Moran

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. E. L. Doctorow

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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. E. L. Doctorow

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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere. E. L. Doctorow

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In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not. Eavan Boland

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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either. Edan Lepucki

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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy. Eddie Marsan

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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction). Edmund White

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