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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

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

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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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.

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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

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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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It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

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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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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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The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

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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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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

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