#fiction

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. ↗

— Mira Nair

#life #more #peculiar #place #really

Another of them died last night. His body was in the bazaar this morning. It lay, with a collecting bowl at its feet, on the charpoy that is reserved for those who die without money or family to bury them. He looked desiccated and his skin had the sheen and color of the dates we eat to break our fast. There are new bodies on that charpoy every week. ↗

— Louise Brown

#sad #dating

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#appealing #audience #being #device #distinguishes

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. ↗

— Ben Okri

#definition #description #fallen #fiction #human

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#because #best #costumes #fan #got

I tend to read non-fiction. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#non-fiction #read #tend

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#book #chattering #fiction #i #i think

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. ↗

— Joan Didion

#directly #fiction #i #more #nonfiction

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#about #any #away #create #crisis

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi! ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#cent #fiction #good #grow #grow up