1447 Fiction Quotes for You to Enjoy

There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules. Jon Ronson

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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic. Jonathan Carroll

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Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about. Jonathan Demme

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Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit. Jonathan Evison

Too Enough Give Writers Reader Fiction Many Credit

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction. Jonathan Evison

Me Sense Everything Way Significant Finds Most Any Fiction Happens

I do believe that sci-fi or historical fiction finds an easy home in comics because there are no budget constraints in regards to the necessary world-building or visual effects necessary to bring those stories to life in other mediums. Jonathan Hickman

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. Jonathan Lethem

Me Way Bored Write Read Learned Parts Fiction Skipping

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. Jonathan Safran Foer

Strongly Something Feel Reader Makes Fiction Works

All of business and all of politics is essentially fiction to those who live them. I have more experience with fiction than most senators because I do it all day, so their world didn't seem that foreign to me. Joshua Cohen

The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community. Joshua Cohen

Problem Community Back Always Ends Fiction Assimilation

At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories. Joshua Oppenheimer

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Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want. Joss Whedon

Needs You Own Every Vampire Vampires Take Want Fiction

I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am. Joss Whedon

Science Birth Geek Science Fiction Am Just Fiction Who

Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read. Joss Whedon

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I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are. Joy Fielding

Writing Books Exactly Kinds Write Like Read Commercial Fiction Popular

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art. Julia Glass

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At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation. Julia Glass

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Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a few years feeling miserably 'behind' my high-achieving friends. But I persevered and obviously have no regrets. Julia Glass

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