#fiction

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#community #dealing #fiction #gay #gay community

I prefer fact to fiction. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#fiction #i #prefer

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#clues #continue #could #develop #fascinating

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#been #big #big fan #fan #fiction

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

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #rebellious #young-adult

The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story. ↗

— Tom Shippey

#fiction #tolkien #tom-shippey #writing #freedom

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#come #down #fiction #going #i