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Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. Chad Harbach
Me Involve Nonfiction Very Different Fiction Processes
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. Chaim Potok
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To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated. Chang-Rae Lee
To Be Honest Since Reader Korean Fiction Little Translated Much Honest
Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction. Charles Bock
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I didn't have a lot of great jobs. I was a third-shift legal proofreader. I did office work for people where a friend might say, 'Hey, we need someone,' in his office, and then I will have a month or two weeks or whatever somewhere. I was - I taught fiction workshops. Charles Bock
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In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that. Charles Palliser
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I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed. Charles Stross
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Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. Charles Stross
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If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is. Charlotte Lamb
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Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I. Charlotte Lamb
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I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.' Charlyne Yi
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I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it. Cheryl Mendelson
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When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller. Chevy Stevens
Me Women Writing Thought First Out Boring More Thriller Had Written Taking Missing Parts Still Years Fiction Informed Realize Agent Then Many Actually Started Kept
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. China Mieville
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I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. China Mieville
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In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart. China Mieville
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I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction. China Mieville
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Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. China Mieville
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It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand. Chloe Zhao
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The stories that engaged me as a kid were all science fiction. Later, it turned out that I didn't have the language to talk about what was bothering me in a way that was straightforward. Chris Adrian
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The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. Chris Chocola
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