1446 Fiction Quotes for You to Enjoy

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat. Adrian McKinty

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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. Alain de Botton

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I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means. Alan Furst

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It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show up at some object in space and turn on the viewfinder, the audience and the people in the show know immediately whether it's a planet or a star or a comet or an asteroid. Alan Stern

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I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s. Alastair Reynolds

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One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to a blackboard and start explaining how this faster-than-light drive works, or something like that. We never really have those conversations in real life. That's not part of the way we interact as human beings. Alastair Reynolds

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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop. Aleksandar Hemon

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I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation. Aleksandar Hemon

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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. Aleksandar Hemon

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Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience. Alex Berenson

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I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read. Alex Flinn

Write Contemporary Read Readers Want Fiction

As a young writer, I questioned the idea that I had to write fiction in a world where I could write my own ethnicity only and nothing else. 'Fach' to me was a little like that. As a biracial person, that's an inherently unstable identity. Alexander Chee

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When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why? Alexander Chee

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy. Alexander Chee

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Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe. Alexander Chee

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Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. Alexander McCall Smith

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