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“Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.”

Has Beens Might Hate Common Fiction Adventure Conflict Lonely Agreement Might Have Been Love And Hate Musings

Book:The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography

Source: The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography

“What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.”

World Stories Common Fiction Fantasy Science Fiction Pornography Fiction Stories

Book:Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.”

“Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.”

Christian Belief Common Fiction Contrary Frank

Author:Randy Alcorn

“That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.”

May Character Facts Views Common Fiction Creativity Draws Flying Faithful Butterfly Squirrels Caterpillars Variance

Book:The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

“The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.”

Writing Trying Kind Littles Common Fiction One Thing Sentences Poetic Non Fiction Fiction Writing

Author:George Saunders

“There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the distance has perhaps to do with distance - narrative distance - from the characters; it has to do with the kind of voice that is talking, but it certainly hasn't to do with the common distribution between fact and imagination.”

Kind Character Facts Voice Imagination Common Fiction Talking Greater Perception Claims Distance Narrative Distribution Non Fiction

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“With fiction, and also with nonfiction that you can take your time doing, you have a much better chance of reaching across the divide and connecting with somebody who is opposed to you on some things. They're opposed to you on one axis, which is politics, but if you go over the axis called puppies, you might find some common ground.”

Ifs Might Chance Common Fiction Reaching Divides Nonfiction Connecting Puppy Doing You Common Ground Axes Take Your Time

Author:George Saunders