#fiction

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. ↗

— James Wolcott

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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

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