#fiction

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. ↗

— Regina Spektor

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Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. ↗

— Richard Stallman

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I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income. ↗

— George Stephen

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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin. ↗

— Tim Roth

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I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it. ↗

— David O. Russell

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A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ↗

— Richard Schickel

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