#fiction

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. ↗

— David Leavitt

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It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. ↗

— Mike Lee

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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? ↗

— Tanith Lee

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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. ↗

— Charles de Lint

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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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