#fiction

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#i #result #shall #tell #truth

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#dead #fantasy #fiction #hard #i

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#convince #creator #fiction #him #history

Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages. ↗

— Dennis Garlick

#psychology #science-fiction #age

Well,Sir," she began,"I am twenty-one years old & still a virgin. I have never experienced sexual intercourse. My hymen is not broken.Old men say that a virgin`s Nectar is good for them. I understand that you want to buy. I want to sell."[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#men

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#continuous #fiction #form #i #newspaper

Depending on your own background and life experiences, this may or may not be new to you, but after an eight-to-twelve-hour day, white office workers often don't feel like they've spent enough time with each other. Therefore, they are prone to organizing pseudo-official company activities such as bowling or happy hour. ↗

— Baratunde R. Thurston

#non-fiction #experience

I am self-educated from genre books. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#mysteries #education

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives. ↗

— Vincent Canby

#experience #feeling #fiction #good #importance

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. ↗

— John Cheever

#experimentation #fiction