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“I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.”

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Author:Regina Spektor

“Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.”

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Book:The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book

Source: The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

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Author:E. L. Doctorow

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

“The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes”

“In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.”

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Author:James Scott Bell

“There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'”

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Author:James Scott Bell

“Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.”

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Author:Arda Collins

“I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.”

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Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.”

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Author:Rudy Rucker

“Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.”

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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.”

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Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.”

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Author:Vernor Vinge

“Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.”

“Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.”

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Author:Kathy Reichs

“A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.”

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Author:Robert J. Sawyer

“I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.”

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Author:Alan Cheuse

“I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.”

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Author:Dylan Moran

“I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.”

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Book:The province of the heart

Source: The province of the heart

“If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.”

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Author:Anthony Burgess

“Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds of their characters work, or to set aside the opportunity to provide necessary background exposition in a succinct fashion.”

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Author:Les Standiford

“The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”

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Book:madame bovary

Source: madame bovary

“The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.”

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Author:Tana French

“Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles. Others talk about stories that are "plot-driven," as if the plot were neither the highway nor the automobile, but the chauffeur. Others seem to have plot phobia and say they never plot. Still others turn up their noses at the very notion, as if there's something artificial, fraudulent, contrived.”

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