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fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction life love whether
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. Abraham Verghese
fiction realizing social
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. Doris Lessing
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 documentaries directors
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life. Alfred Hitchcock
fiction movement crafts
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Raymond Carver
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 life-is stranger
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. Neil Gaiman
preference mediums
I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another. Christine Baranski
novels people
All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve. Michel Faber
novel exception
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well. Amos Oz
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
novelty literature advantage
Being a novelty had its advantages. Jessica Savitch
novels three translated
Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages. Jojo Moyes
novel sex
It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal. George Bernard Shaw
novel
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. Elizabeth Hardwick
novel austen clothings
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. Terry Pratchett
novel
Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite. Joyce Carol Oates