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• Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Reality, Giving, Imagination

  "America" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, (p. 95), 1988.

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• Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Reality, Opposites, Giving

  "America" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, (p. 95), 1988.

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• Give me B movies or give me death!

  Clive Barker

  Movie, Giving, Cinema

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 16, 2013

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• Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Dream, Facts, Accurate

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• If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Scary, Asking, Answers

  "Pulp Fiction". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Narrative, Fiction And Nonfiction, Nonfiction

  New York Times Book Review, January 27, 1988.

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• Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

  Robert Morgan

  Powerful, Writing, Southern

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• The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

  Salman Rushdie

  Acceptance, Reality, Air

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Development, Kind, Genre

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• Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

  Rudy Rucker

  Principles, Wonder, Failing

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• Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

  Bodhidharma

  Real, Uprising, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.53, Macmillan

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• Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

  Richard Savage

  Sex, Contradiction, Whim

  Richard Savage, Thomas Park (1807). “The Poetical Works of Richard Savage: Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.129

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• The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feelings, Perception, Brain

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Peace, Military

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides
  By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
  Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will,
  Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness,
  For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
  And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger
  Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
  And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Brother, Children, Selfish

  "Fictional character: Jules". "Pulp Fiction", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Brother, Anger

  "Pulp Fiction". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Drama, Doors, Perception

  "Ursula K. Le Guin, The Art of Fiction No. 221". Interview with John Wray, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 2013.

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• Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

  Bruce Sterling

  Real, People, Imagination

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• Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Feelings, Way

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Character, Mean, Pulp

  Quentin Tarantino (1994). “Pulp Fiction”, Miramax Books

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• Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Animal, Pigs, Eating

  "Fictional character: Jules Winnfield". "Pulp Fiction", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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  Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

  Stephen King

  Lying, Writing, Kids

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Liars, Taken, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.146, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Invitations, My Own

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

  Stephen King

  Honesty, Writing, Keys

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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