#fiction

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film. ↗

— Gil Gerard

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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. ↗

— Wally Lamb

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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

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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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