#fiction

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. ↗

— Scott McCloud

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I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. ↗

— John McGahern

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My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. ↗

— Steven Moffat

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Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. ↗

— Rick Moody

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I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that. ↗

— Chris Morris

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Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction. ↗

— George Murray

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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

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In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

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