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• ‘Star Wars’ is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

  Mark Hamill

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  The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.

  Tom Clancy

  Topics in Life, Truth

  Tags in Writers And Writing, Reality, Fiction

• Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

  Kurt Sutter

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  Tags in Fiction, Storytelling

• The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I’ll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.

  Julie Courtney Sullivan

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  Tags in Hoping, Fiction

• The interesting thing about fiction from a writer’s standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

  Whitley Strieber

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  Tags in Fiction, Complexity

• Life is a means of extracting fiction.

  Robert Stone

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Fiction

• A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

  Oscar Wilde

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  Tags in Biography, Fiction, Faces, Men And Women, Women

• Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

  Susan Sontag

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  Tags in Science, Fiction, Books, Reading

• The truth is that every writer, whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that’s what I think I’m doing.

  Lisa Scottoline

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  Tags in Nonfiction, Fiction

• I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I’m writing I don’t like to read other fiction.

  Irvine Welsh

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• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  Irwin Shaw

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  Tags in Try, Short, Fiction

• I’d always been a science fiction enthusiast.

  Ivan Reitman

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  Tags in Science, Fiction, Enthusiast

• I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

  Ivan Reitman

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  Tags in Science, Fiction

• It’s funny with fiction – once you cut something, it hasn’t happened anymore.

  George Saunders

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  Tags in Fiction, Anymore

• I think fiction isn’t so good at being for or against things in general – the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

  George Saunders

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  Tags in Short Story, Fiction

• The novel, if it be anything, is contemporary history, an exact and complete reproduction of social surroundings of the age we live in.

  George Moore

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  Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

  Jessamyn West

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  Tags in Reveals, Fiction, Reality, Books

• Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

  G. K. Chesterton

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  Tags in Literature, Fiction, Books

• I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering – they’re sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I’m doing, and all my pleasure’s on the level of the line.

  Karen Russell

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  Tags in Cathedral, Fiction

• Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

  Karen Russell

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  Tags in Dealings, Fiction