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• The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.

  Christopher Paolini

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• Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction so we are told.

  Virginia Euwer Wolff

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• Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality.

  Miguel Syjuco

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• When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

  Leif Enger

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• Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

  Francine Rivers

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• I’m a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

  Gale Anne Hurd

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• Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It’s the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

  Ellen Hopkins

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• Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture’s memory.

  Emma Donoghue

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• Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.

  Ann Marie Aguilar

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• Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

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• I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you’re creating something.

  George Hickenlooper

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• I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

  Amy Hempel

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• I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

  Aleksandar Hemon

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• One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.

  Joanne Harris

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• We’ve been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.

  Honor Harger

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• The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.

  Suzanne Palmieri

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• Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

  Chad Harbach

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• I like writing for movies. It’s nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it’s nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

  Daniel Handler

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

  Mark Hamill

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• 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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