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In a good play, everyone is in the right.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel / Poet
Fiction Writing
Play
Writing
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I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.
Tim Lahaye / Author
Fiction Writing
Jerry
Masterful
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Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana Trump / Athlete
Funny
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Inspiration
Stupid
Almost Anything
Make Up
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Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
Ethan Canin / Author
Fiction Writing
Medicine
Profession
Supremely
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Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.
Anthony Doerr / Author Of Novels
Excuse
Fiction Writing
Interesting Things
Discover
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Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.
Leonard Mlodinow / Physicist
Fiction Writing
Nonfiction
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First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
Kathy Acker / Novelist
Fiction Writing
Magic
Thinking
Writing
First Of All
More And More
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Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.
Monica Hesse /
Fiction Writing
Journalism
Grounds
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I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
Eleanor Catton / Author
Fiction Writing
Creative Ways
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In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.
Maria Semple / Novelist
Fiction Writing
Tied
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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 / Writer
Example
Fiction Writing
Powerful
Southern
Writing
Poets
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I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
Janis Ian / Singer-Songwriter
Couple
Fiction Writing
Good Luck
Luck
Writing
Good Luck Good Luck
Pretty Good
Short Stories
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Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
Paul Theroux / Film Writer
Book
Buying
Fiction Writing
Reading
Tiny
Writing
Activities
Minority
Societies
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When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
Lily Rabe / Actress
Fiction Writing
Real
School
Seminars
Writing
High School And College
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Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
Paul Harding / Musician
Contrary
Fiction Writing
Liars
Reading
Telling The Truth
Writing
Confess
Liar
Pathological
Writes
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A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising is wonderful training for fiction. Writing novels is much easier if you've ever tried to write a billboard.
Marcus Sakey / Author
Advertising
Exposed
Fiction Writing
Plenty
Billboard
Decade
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I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him.
Robert Crais / Author
Fiction Writing
Genre
Mr
Detective
Followed
Influenced
Parker
Robert
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I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
John Dalton / Chemist
Day To Day
Discipline
Fiction Writing
Iowa
Needed
Obsessive
University
Valuable
Writing
Years
Acquiring
Highly
Professionally
Several
Studying
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I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.
John Burnside / Writer
Fiction Writing
Proust
Qualifications
Recognise
Sentences
Statements
Heroes
Life Love Long
Consist
Henry
James
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Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
James Rollins / Veterinarian
Blood
Fiction Writing
Pedigree
Real
Son
Writing
Young Age
Considered
Author
Literary
Fitzgerald
Hemingway
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
Garry Disher / Author
Creative Writing
Fiction Writing
Granted
Setting
Teaching
Treatment
Writing
Years
Element
Vital
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This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.
Hooman Majd / Journalist
College
Fiction Writing
Sound
Writing
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We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week.
Miguel Ferrer / Actor
Concepts
Down To Earth
Fiction Writing
Fostering
Great Job
Tools
Miss
Complex
Instructor
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In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.
David Shields / Author
Fiction Writing
Late
Nonfiction
Twenties
Beginning
Collage
Early Thirties
Literary
Mechanics
Thirties
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A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.
Peter Temple / Fiction Writer
Crime
Crime Fiction
Fiction Writing
Hero
Lazy
Taste
Grant
Medium
Protagonist
Shown
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon / Novelist
Devices
Elements
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Narrative
Novel
Screenplays
Structure
Used
Writing
Complex
Consider
Demands
Enhance
Forces
Infinitely
Regarding
Story
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When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.
Jenny Zhang /
American Literature
Classmates
Fiction Writing
Fortunate
Hated
Iowa
Juncture
Literature
Particular
Student
Writers
Failed
Graduate
Graduate Student
Remind
Workshop
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If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
Lorrie Moore / Writer
Acknowledge
Being Funny
Comic
Fiction Writing
Honestly
Human Nature
Aspects
Included
Reduced
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My favourite authors are John Grisham and Jeffrey Archer. Grisham rapidly established himself and now completely owns the legal space of fiction writing, something I want to do in financial space. I like Archer because he keeps his readers engaged: every chapter is a page turner, and he keeps his writing simple.
Ravi Subramanian /
Legal
Engaged
Favourite
Fiction Writing
Turner
Authors
Established
Chapter
John Grisham
Owns
Page
Rapidly
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