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• 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

• 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

• 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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  Tags in Fiction

• 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

• I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn’t really have a story.

  Drew Roy

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  Tags in Fiction, Alien

• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that’s lacking in our regular lives.

  Patrick Rothfuss

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  Tags in Resolution, Fiction

• If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn’t read it.

  Veronica Roth

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  Tags in Trend, Fiction

• Now, I’m a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people’s imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn’t. Conservatives typically haven’t written much fiction – specifically political thrillers – over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.

  Joel C. Rosenberg

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  Tags in Imagination, Fiction

• Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.

  Ben Monopoli

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Fiction

• I think truth is weirder than fiction.

  James Marsters

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Fiction

• Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

  Ken MacLeod

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  Tags in Fiction, Question

• 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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  Tags in Fiction

• The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

  Isabel Allende

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Lie, Whatever, Order, Fiction, Author

• I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the ‘message,’ even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

  Isabel Allende

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  Tags in Freedom, Fiction, Memoirs, Readers

• I’ve always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

  Dan Aykroyd

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  Tags in Fiction