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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

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I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

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I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

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There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

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The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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