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Jessie was trying to read science fiction but nothing she read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet, she said, for sheer unimaginableness. Don DeLillo
Michael Crichton quote: "This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't."
This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't. Michael Crichton
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character in fiction, and a very interesting one too: one of the greatest and most complex villains of all - savage, petty, boastful and jealous, and yet capable of moments of tenderness and extremes of arbitrary affection - for David, for example. But he's not real, any more than Hamlet or Mr Pickwick are real. They are real in the context of their stories, but you won't find... Philip Pullman
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! Terry Prachett
Wilkie Collins quote: "I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary..."
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. Wilkie Collins
Haruki Murakami quote: "I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your..."
I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact. Haruki Murakami
When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and a failure. Her judgement of his work was arrogant. What else of consequence did she ever write? And of the two, who was dead - and who was not? Dean Koontz
Carol Shields quote: "A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it? It leaves..."
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it? It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. Carol Shields
These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he would never be a fiction writer, and, in his own way, he was brave. Roberto Bolano
Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality, and the camera captures it. In the former everything is fiction, while the second is the sum of the real plus the sensibility of the photographer. Ribero never allowed me sentimental or exhibitionist tricks-none of this arranging objects or models to look like paintings. He was the enemy of artificial compostion; he did not let me manipulate... Isabel Allende
Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality Gilles Deleuze
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels... Azar Nafisi
Barry Unsworth quote: "Kneading memory makes the dough of fiction; which we know,..."
Kneading memory makes the dough of fiction; which we know, sometimes never stops rising. Barry Unsworth
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something. Orson Scott Card
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument. Jeremy Bentham

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