#fiction

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conversational #criticism #essay #even #fiction

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#because #best #costumes #fan #got

I tend to read non-fiction. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#non-fiction #read #tend

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. ↗

— Joan Didion

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Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book. ↗

— Robert Reed

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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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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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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#any #biographies #fiction #i #i love

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world. ↗

— Brent Spiner

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I don't read Science Fiction. ↗

— Brent Spiner

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