Top Fiction Quotes
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
Brian Lumley
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
A. C. Benson
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.
Octavia Butler
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Thomas Huxley All Fiction Quotes
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
Robert Sheckley 
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I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
Neil LaBute
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Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
Jared Diamond
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I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
Richard Attenborough
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
Walter Salles
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Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
Theodore Sturgeon
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But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
Helen Garner
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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
Theodore Sturgeon
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