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Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

John Updike

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

John Cheever

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

Rick Bass

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.

George R. R. Martin

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Clive James

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Virginia Woolf

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Margaret Atwood

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

Gillian Cross

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Paolo Bacigalupi

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