Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Fiction Quotes

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

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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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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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

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Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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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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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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

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

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

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The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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

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