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" A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. "

" All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. "

" All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. "

George R. R. Martin

" A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask. "

" Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies. "

John Twelve Hawks

" A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction. "

" A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. "

" A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. "

Alexander McCall Smith

" Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. "

" A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. "

" A public is a necessary fiction. "

" As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books. "

" As fiction writers, we are entertainers. "

" As with all types of writing, fantastical fiction depends on the same basic rules. "

" Autobiographical fiction is very tricky. "

" Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. "

Theodore Sturgeon

" Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility. "

" Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. "

Philip Guedalla

" Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. "

" Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it. "

" But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff. "

" Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction. "

" Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking. "

" Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly. "

" Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat. "

" Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know. "

" Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve. "

" Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll. "

" Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction. "

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