#fiction

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. ↗

— Peter Straub

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I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun. ↗

— Sarah Sutton

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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise. ↗

— Nancy Thayer

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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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There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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