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• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  Barbara Kingsolver

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• Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

  Barbara Kingsolver

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• What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

  Barbara Kingsolver

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• His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

  Gerald Clarke

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• Whenever I have had to write fiction, I’ve always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• Basically, fiction is people. You can’t write fiction about ideas.

  Theodore Sturgeon

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• In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

  Theodore Sturgeon

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• I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

  Theodore Sturgeon

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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

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• I’m a fan of short horror fiction… in fact, the most memorable horror I’ve read is of the short variety… but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

  George Stephen

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• On the other hand, now that I’m not dependent on fiction for my income, I’ve been writing more short stories despite the fact that there’s no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

  George Stephen

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  Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

  Paul Theroux

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• But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

  George Saintsbury

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• My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare’s day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

  Steven Moffat

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• Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it’s harder to write. It’s harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

  George Murray

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• I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

  George Murray

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• Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

  George Murray

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• I don’t really have special rituals, but I don’t try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I’m truly concentrating.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

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• I’m able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

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• So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

  Stephen L. Carter

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