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At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about. William T. Vollmann

Me Knowledge Ignorance About Someplace More Write Takes Nonfiction Least Lot Begin Than Fiction

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. William Trevor

You Understanding Thinking Imagination Indeed Without Fiction Capacity

Because of the 'Twilight' series, our company gets every speculative piece of fiction from people hoping for the next 'Twilight,' and so you read them, and they all kind of wash over you after awhile. Wyck Godfrey

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing. Yancy Butler

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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. Yann Martel

Me Book Idea Non-Fiction Still Fiction Really Flip Appeals

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. Yann Martel

You Rules Follow Write Genre Readers Because Expect Fiction Them

It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction. Yolandi Visser

Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people didn't connect the dots and say all human endeavours sprang from the same principle. Yuval Noah Harari

Saying People Nation Unity Everybody Say Has-Been Since Principle Been Same Human Fiction Dots Connect Imaginary

While I prefer generally more personal dramas in which I can stretch myself... and while I'm not a science fiction buff, I consider '2001' a great film, absolutely enthralling; at 'Star Wars' I had a fabulous time, and, at 'Alien,' while it was a silly story, I was knocked out. Yvette Mimieux

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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it. Zadie Smith

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Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction. Heather O'Neill

Believe Tell Adolescent Between Make Make-Believe Still Difference Children Fiction

When I was four I joined a group of girls who were talking about their party dresses. I thought they were imagining, so I imagined a fantastic pink velvet dress with lots of jewels. But they were simply describing what they actually wore, and they had utter contempt for my obvious fiction. After that, I never joined a group again. Martha Nussbaum

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I have always enjoyed literature classes, and I took a fiction workshop for writing and analyzing at Curtis... I don't know if would do it professionally, but it's nice to have the balance with the music. Hilary Hahn

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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation. Umberto Eco

Love Great Writing World Living Secrecy Tell I Love I Write Write Doing Private Private World Sensation Anybody Fiction Novel

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy. Porter Robinson

Me Appreciation Worlds Kind Escapism Fiction Stories Fantasy Meant

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind. Maya Angelou

Mind Think Say Only Autobiographical Fiction Happened Such A Thing Even Thing

If people call my book an actor's memoir I will be very upset. I can't bear anything too literal, so it has elements of truth and elements of fiction sitting side by side. Zawe Ashton

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The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human. Tim O'Brien

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Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible. Michael O'Brien

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A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music. Chuck Palahniuk

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