A. A. Gill Quotes, Past Quotes, Fiction Quotes

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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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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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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Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

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

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Deeds Quotes

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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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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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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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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The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Preference Quotes

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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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

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

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

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Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

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

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