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“I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.”

Thinking Writing Opportunity My Own Fiction Limits My Own Life

“My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.”

Artist My Own Fiction Mom My Mom Visuals

“With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.”

Thinking Feels Use Literature Language My Own Fiction Mines Difficulty Science Fiction Genre Exception Avoiding Unnatural American Literature

Author:Kingsley Amis

“As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit - subliterature.”

“When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.”

Writing Trying Kind Doe I Can Reason Values Interest Natural My Own Fiction Drama Weakness Mediums Endowment Slender Confessing Natural Phenomena

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.”

Want Has Beens Two Lasts Given My Own Fiction Careers Influence Science Fiction Lists Labels Genre Prize Mainstream Dissidents Cyberpunk Manifestos

Author:William Gibson

“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.”

“When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.”

Two Three My Own Fiction Awards Ballots

Author:Kelly Link

“When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it generally more cinematic. I would stick too closely to my own experience and not necessarily think about the fact that it needs to have an event happen. Realising that I could channel my own experience into a story that was slightly more cinematic was a very important moment for me - allowing myself to accept that the kind of screenwriting I'm doing is a work of fiction.”

Thinking Needs Writing Kind Important Moments Facts Stories Happens Order My Own Fiction Accepting Events Sticks Scripts Allowing Realising Screenwriting Cinematic Important Moments

Author:Lena Dunham

“When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.”

Littles Made My Own Fiction Written Shapes Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Echoes Once Upon A Time Justine

Author:Justine Larbalestier

“for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.”

Art Purpose My Own Fiction Defined

Book:Works

Source: Works

“I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.”

Firsts Character Stories My Own Fiction Watches Towns Collections Short Story Small Town Fellowship Fidelity Sock Berries Illinois

Author:Nick Offerman

“Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself.)”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Book Enough Stories Reading Wish My Own Interesting Fiction Written Determined Fantastic Impressed Hostile Ingenious Allegory Reviewers

Book:Reflections on the Psalms

Source: Reflections on the Psalms

“I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.”

Knows Writing Wells Mean I Can Ends My Own Fiction Authority Details Surface My Own Life

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.”

Reading My Own Pleasure Fiction Mystery Materials

Author:David McCullough

“When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.”

Writing Character My Own Views Fiction Defense Eloquent

Author:Orson Scott Card

“I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.”

Knows Writing Firsts Children Book Would Be My Own Rooms Fiction Doors Privacy Fragile

Author:Marge Piercy

“In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.”

Writing Has Beens Different My Own Fiction Groups Woven Fiction Writing Strands

Author:Alan Lightman

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