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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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.
In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.
I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.
Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.
I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.
I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.
I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.
The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.
I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.
I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.
Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception.
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.
For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.
In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.