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Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well. ↗

— Brad Holland

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All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. ↗

— Richard Hughes

#ask #business #fiction #non-fiction #questions

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum. ↗

— John Hume

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Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

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I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

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If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

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I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters. ↗

— Margaret Weis

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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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