#fiction

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

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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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The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#call #express #fiction #how #i

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#boring #dark #fictions #most #people

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fit #likely #masterpiece #original #reader

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#distort #facts #fiction #lies #never

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#been #before #book #career #case

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700. ↗

— Graham Nelson

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