1452 Fiction Quotes for You to Enjoy

There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe? Andrew O'Hagan

'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir. Tim O'Brien

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When fiction started on TV, the daily soap splurge happened and I knew that I would not get caught in a daily soap. Javed Jaffrey

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If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them. Douglas Coupland

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In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is. Jess Phillips

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Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy. Umberto Eco

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People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. Henry Rollins

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I think real life is weirder than fiction. Kim Shattuck

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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. Ursula K. Le Guin

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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear. L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

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I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of that. That's actually very valuable. Richard Dawkins

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction. Heather O'Neill

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I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV. Javed Jaffrey

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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me. Uzodinma Iweala

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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. Quentin Tarantino

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I'm a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality. Martin Cooper

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