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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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

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

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

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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

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

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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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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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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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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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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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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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