#fiction

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. ↗

— Erica Jong

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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#brave #deeper #embrace #every #every time

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. ↗

— Paul Krugman

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The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#fiction #imaginative #lot #people #science

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#behind #comes #emotion #feelings #fiction

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. ↗

— Karl Rove

#costs #country #dollar #economic #ever

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#book #chance #chick #fantasy #fiction

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

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