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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #fiction




See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.


John Sladek


#background #call #halt #handling #i

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.


Susan Sontag


#considered #deaths #demeaning #diseases #easy

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.


Nicholas Sparks


#i #look #me #own #romance

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


#beautiful #characters #fiction #fiction writers #i

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


Carlos Ruiz Zafón


#humour #age

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


#ancient times #authors #copied #copyright #did

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


#business #depend #developing #devoted #during

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


#changes #child #fiction #grown #grown man

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.


Theodore Sturgeon


#ayn rand #because #compassion #economical #fiction

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.


Allen Tate


#according #anything #because #become #been






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