#fiction

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. ↗

— George Saunders

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If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. ↗

— William Gass

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Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin. ↗

— Tim Roth

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Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world. ↗

— Brent Spiner

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I don't read Science Fiction. ↗

— Brent Spiner

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As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income. ↗

— George Stephen

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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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