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Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
Clive Barker
Control
Believe
Every
Chaos
Purely
Horror
Oblivion
Fiction
Us
Moment
Shows
Illusory
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Maurizio Cattelan
Truth
Needs
Truth Is
Sometimes
Tell
Make
Fiction
Hard
Plausible
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Barbara Kingsolver
Life
Good
You
Eyes
Somewhere
Live
Through
Takes
Empathy
Look
Another
Person
Fiction
Ask
Creates
Novel
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
Barbara Kingsolver
Humanity
People
Poet
Own
Writer
Essay
Fiction
Fiction Writer
I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.
Brent Weeks
Good
Struggle
Good And Evil
Humanity
Evil
Think
Excellent
Questions
Fiction
Place
Us
Inhumanity
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Herman Wouk
Today
Written
Most
Returns
Being
Tax
Fiction
Tax Returns
Income
Income Tax
Imaginative
Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?
Ken Robinson
You
Opportunity
Matter
Would
Tried
Write
Never
Had
Picked
Talent
Talents
Know
Instrument
Partly
How
Sailing
Passions
Been
Discover
Up
Fiction
Whether
Teach
Your
Things
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.
Terry Pratchett
Science
Clever
Enough
Trek
Incredibly
Books
Bits
Tend
Writers
Written
Stuff
Genre
Science Fiction
Science Fiction Writers
Said
Real
Educational
Often
Fiction
Fiction Writers
Cannot
Interesting
Little
Speaking
Fill
Star
Star Trek
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.
Tom DeLonge
Day
Science
Every Day
Every
Books
Philosophy
Read
Science Fiction
Human
Fiction
Human Consciousness
Consciousness
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V. S. Naipaul
Distort
Lies
Totally
Writer
Facts
Never
Reveals
Autobiography
Fiction
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
Yann Martel
Reality
Interpretation
Imagination
Some
Volition
Part
How
Fiction
Which
Means
Play
Interpret
Extent
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Words
Medium
Says
Does
Said
Deals
Artist
Fiction
Cannot
Novelist
Whose
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Technology
Science
Myth
Mythology
Science Fiction
Tragic
Modern
Fiction
Modern Technology
Then
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
Alfred de Vigny
You
Eyes
Own
Assume
Chrysalis
Degrees
See
Wings
Fact
Fiction
Your
To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.
Arundhati Roy
Me
World
Dance
Sense
Nothing
Way
Teller
Only
Higher
Involves
Make
Am
Than
Fiction
Stories
Who
Fundamentally
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
Ben Shapiro
Character
Man
Thug
Enemies
Out
Hunting
Running
Find
Photographs
Horses
Poisoning
Putin
Wrong
Massive
Himself
Tigers
His
End
Soviet
Fiction
Stages
Former
Themselves
Radioactive
Riding
Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.
Casey Neistat
Truth
Truth Is
More
Than
Fiction
Interesting
Much
Used
Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.
Chamath Palihapitiya
News
Noise
Smart
Job
Facts
Investor
Fiction
Separate
Your
The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.
Charles Krauthammer
Vision
Arrogant
Community
Think
Liberal
Obama
Would
Fuzzy
More
Through
Governs
Itself
America
Fiction
Which
Unilateral
Should
View
Less
International
International Community
Internationalism
Internationalist
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
Chris Bohjalian
Me
Important
Resonance
Though
Memoir
Voice
Absolute
Emotional
Clearly
Most
Narrator
Fiction
Believable
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
Dan Simmons
Hope
Science
Own
Think
Terms
Science Fiction
Understood
Fiction
Novels
Enjoyed
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
Don DeLillo
Work
Job
Write
Quit
Just
Want
Anymore
Fiction
What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
Gardner Dozois
Positive
Science
Positive Things
Drawbacks
Possible
Someday
Examine
Take
Science Fiction
Does
Were
Fiction
Happen
Might
Things
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
George Will
Political
Become
Somehow
Rather
Both
Merely
Wishes
Most
Geographic
Than
Currency
Fiction
Against
Euro
Europe
Europeans
Expression
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller
Life
Liar
Invention
Though
Fabric
Admittedly
Outrageous
Absolutely
Sincere
Most
Very
Truthful
Fiction
Even
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
Hugo Gernsback
Science
First
Must
Also
First Place
Science Fiction
Scientific
Understood
Fiction
Story
Place
Theme
Exposition
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