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• A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

  Susan Sontag

  Death, Memorial, Dying

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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Writing, Attachment

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• Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

  M.I.A.

  Order, Bullshit, Silence

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• Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

  J. G. Ballard

  Reality, Sprung Up, Literature

  "Fictions of Every Kind" (1971)

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• Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

  Jessamyn West

  Happiness, Truth, Attitude

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

  Philip Roth

  Reading, Noise, Reader

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jun 17, 2011

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• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Change, Sarcastic

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 2 (1895)

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• Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

  Philip K. Dick

  Sorry, Writing, I Am Sorry

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Truth, Writing

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• You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

  Tim Roth

  Movie, Dog, Actors

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• Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

  Virginia Woolf

  Burning, Slumber, Novel

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

  Anthony Burgess

  Sex, Writing, Violence

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• Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Political, Stories

  "The Making of Kubrick's 2001". Book by Jerome Agel, 1970.

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• Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

  Ivana Trump

  Funny, Stupid, Inspiration

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• Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

  Octavia Butler

  Looks, Noses, Sticks

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• I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Sep 05, 2011

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• Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Science, Limits

  Interview with David Duncan, www.physics.emory.edu.

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• The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

  Jacques Barzun

  May, Crime, Danger

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• Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

  Terry Brooks

  New York, Book, Firsts

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• When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

  James Joyce

  Thinking, Too Much, Agamemnon

  "Voices: A Memoir". Book by Frederic Prokosch. Chapter: "At Sylvia's", 1983.

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• You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Important, Paper

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.837, Simon and Schuster

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• It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Future, May, Way

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Essence, Fiction Stories

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Science, May

  1975 'How Easy To See The Future', in Natural History, Apr.

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• A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

  Roald Dahl

  Ideas, New Day, Demand

  Roald Dahl (2008). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.152, Penguin UK

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