#fiction

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. ↗

— Richard Bach

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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

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Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate. ↗

— Greg Bear

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I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. ↗

— Peter Benchley

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