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Neil Gaiman

Author

“Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.”

Eye Fiction Behinds

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Marc Forster

Film Director, Producer

“On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.”

Writing Fiction Scripts

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Irwin Shaw

Novelist, Playwright

“Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form”

Trying Literature

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Isabel Allende

Novelist

“fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.”

Brain Fiction

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Neil Gaiman

Author

“I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.”

Writing Stuff Fiction

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”

Needs Truth

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Haruki Murakami

Writer

“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.”

Memories Fiction

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Lauren Oliver

Author

“But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”

Happiness Fiction Pretending

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Isabel Allende

Novelist

“Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.”

Mind Fiction Editing

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Gene Wolfe

Author

“The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to admire) is about love and death, while mere popular fiction like this is about sex and violence. One reader's sex, alas, is another's love; and one's violence, another's death.”

Mean Sex Fiction

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Lawrence Wright

Author, Journalist

“Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.”

Destiny Fiction Alternatives

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Haruki Murakami

Writer

“I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.”

People Thinking Fiction

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