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Most historians are engaged in fiction. Peter Morgan
Most Historians Fiction Engaged
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. Peter Straub
Work Single Entity Writers Feel Want Fiction Fiction Writers Forms Unified Many Eventually
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. Peter Straub
Writing Ambition Instantly Academic Began Fiction Full-Time
Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure. Phil Klay
Me Writing Confused Pressure Way Troubled Take Put Ideas Fiction Them
At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction. Phil Klay
Me Book Writing Complicated Be True Believe More True Blind Spots Always Got Least Were Fiction Wanted Exposure Things
With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened. Phil Klay
You Stress Focus Skin Restricted Something Bothers Take Put Clear Underneath Nonfiction Get Want Fiction Happened Much Really
Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through. Phil Klay
Best Think Way Best Way Something Through Know How Fiction
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! Philip Pullman
Education Me Three Reading System Entire About Something Point Point Of View Through Never Had Studying Importance Passed Years Oxford Fiction Literature View English Basic British
One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them frequently. Philip Pullman
Recommend Consult Writer Piece Frequently Equipment Handy Any Fiction Which Them Cards Set
My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up. Philip Reeve
Work War Time Science First Reading Clothes Believe Worlds Nine Machine Dream Plus Ten Color Tends Had Liking Science Fiction Always Been Encounter Edwardian Up Fiction Which Victorian Ever
I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date. Philip Roth
Life Writing Late Way No Desire Entirely More Date Write Another Another Way Am Amazed Discover Than Did Done Fiction Publishing Desire
I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did. Philip Roth
History Reading Other Once Read Did Same Stopped Fiction Interest Things Biography
With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance. Philip Schultz
Word Every Trenches Chapters Sign Focused Significance Examining Poetry Along Overall Fiction While Sentence Each Deeper
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Films Kind Documentary Always Fiction Even
I like writing historical fiction. Philippa Gregory
Writing Like Historical Historical Fiction Fiction
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun. Piers Anthony
First Later Potential Lighter Also Read Tape Listened Fiction Fantastic Douglas Fun Series Shows
When Priyanka Chopra makes a mark for herself internationally, we claim her achievements as our own and then threaten to ban her films and make her apologize for a work of fiction that has been created by someone else. Can we please attempt to be larger than that? Pooja Bhatt
Work Own Films Mark Else Herself Our Please Claim Has-Been Threaten Someone Attempt Make Makes Been Ban Than Achievements Fiction Then Created Apologize Internationally Larger Her
Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important. Pranav Mistry
Technology Science Important Whatever More Days Make Science Fiction Real Fiction Movies Should Now Watch Two
I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world. Prodigy
History World About Stuff Like Read Real Goin Fiction Certain Certain Things Things
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on. R. A. Salvatore
Science Ugly Mainstream Science Fiction Fiction Literature Fantasy Novels
I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction. Rachel Caine
Great King Back Way Vampire Paranormal Horror Stephen King Anne Since Robert Been Lots Shirley Jackson Fiction Fan Loved Rice Peter
It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story. Rachel Kushner
Conservative Way Plot About Idea Learn Cliche Does Dictate Did Fiction Story Hard Hard Way Need
My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it. Rachel Nichols
Work Book Reading Whatever Books Mood At Least One Some Simultaneously Most House Read Non-Fiction Always Least Get Intend Fiction Which Filled Eventually Nearby Suit
It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith. Rae Carson
Life Faith Culture People World Will Important Group Complete Books Almost Contain Always Any Different Fiction Different Elements Should Reason Many Include Elements Marginalize
For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact. Rainer Weiss
Science Vision Amazing Black Related Wave Our Books Threat Black Holes Impact Had Also Science Fiction Comic Comic Books Discoveries Fiction Einstein Holes Public Reasons Popular Gravitational Albert Albert Einstein
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. Rainn Wilson
Science Parents Big Living Had Wrote Science Fiction Oil Fiction Bohemian Painted Paintings Dad Novels Seattle Mural Last
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