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crime-novels detectives detective-work
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective. Michael Connelly
novelists lessons
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this." Tom Perrotta
novelists males
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. Curtis Sittenfeld
fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction ground los reality
What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles. Michael Connelly
fiction kind film
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films. Ray Bradbury
fiction imagine terrible
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. Siri Hustvedt
fiction adequate demand
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence". R. D. Laing
fiction veils liquor
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. Poppy Z. Brite
fiction strange journalism
Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism. P. J. O'Rourke
fiction century novel
I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels. Ken Follett
fiction detectives christie
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. Kazuo Ishiguro