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“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.”

“When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.”

Way Needs Feels Writing I Can Seems Order Found Fiction Make Sense Writing Fiction

Author:Alice McDermott

“And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.”

Helping Fiction Subjects Theory Make Sense Explanation Adequate

Book:Hopes and impediments: selected essays

Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays

“You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.”

World Individual Fiction Company Identity Source Bigger Storytelling Make Sense Dramatic Afghanistan Something Bigger Than Yourself

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.”

People Want Feels Real Pay Attention Fiction Pay Attention Make Sense

Author:Nick Earls

“Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.”

Different Reality Fiction Make Sense

Author:Ray Bradbury

“There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.”

Reality Names Differences Fiction Make Sense Old Saying

Author:Tom Clancy

“Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.”

Writing Believe Fiction Definitions Make Sense Insanity Writing Life Fiction Writing

Author:Jo Beverley

“It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have to make sense. It's just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.”

Light Asks Fiction Stupid Science Fiction Silly Noise Make Sense Loud Being Silly Loud Noises Flashing Lights

Author:Isaac Asimov

“News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.”

People Ifs Stills Term Interesting Fiction Design News Make Sense

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now. I started so young and went so hard for so long. And I guess it was about feeling I had the space to look over my shoulder.”

Giving Writing Trying Looks Long Has Beens Hard Feelings Young Space Fiction Long Time Accounts Shoulders Who I Am Make Sense Looking Back Weird Things Writing Fiction

Author:Tim Winton