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title: "20 Fiction Kind Quotes by 18 authors"
description: "Browse 20 Fiction Kind quotes by 18 authors. Discover the best Fiction Kind sayings and thoughts."
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> [Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/science-fiction-is-a-kind-of-archaeology-of-the-future/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

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> [Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/once-you-get-that-instinct-for-the-fictiveness-the-fictionality-of/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

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> [“Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-roberts/let-us-say-that-science-fiction-is-a-kind-of-conceptual/)

[Adam Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-roberts/)

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> [There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-twohy/there-are-trappings-of-science-fiction-which-i-kind-of-embrace-but/)

[David Twohy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-twohy/)

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> [Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muriel-spark/fiction-to-me-is-a-kind-of-parable-you-have-got-to-make-up-your-mind/)

[Muriel Spark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muriel-spark/)

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> [I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/poul-anderson/i-think-the-first-duty-of-all-art-including-fiction-of-any-kind-is-to/)

[Poul Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/poul-anderson/)

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> [If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/if-you-think-of-a-work-of-fiction-as-a-kind-of-scale-model-of-the/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-travolta/i-think-for-sure-saturday-night-fever-and-pulp-fiction-were-kind-of/)

[John Travolta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-travolta/)

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> [I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-lerner/i-think-the-anti-intellectualism-of-a-lot-of-contemporary-fiction-is/)

[Ben Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-lerner/)

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> [I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-j-o-rourke/i-like-fiction-and-the-kind-of-history-that-gives-the-grace-and/)

[P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-j-o-rourke/)

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> [All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-wilson/all-fiction-for-me-is-a-kind-of-magic-and-trickery-a-confidence-trick/)

[Angus Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-wilson/)

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> [Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwidge-danticat/even-when-i-think-of-writing-fiction-it-s-being-kind-of-a-liar-a/)

[Edwidge Danticat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwidge-danticat/)

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> [I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annette-bening/i-can-be-very-snobby-about-fiction-especially-contemporary-fiction-i/)

[Annette Bening](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annette-bening/)

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> [ Science fiction \[is\] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-mosley/science-fiction-is-the-kind-of-writing-that-prepares-us-for-the/)

[Walter Mosley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-mosley/)

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> [“Fiction is most effective when its themes are unspoken. An ideal fiction has a kind of thematic ghostliness, whereby the novel marks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-wood/fiction-is-most-effective-when-its-themes-are-unspoken-an-ideal/)

[James Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-wood/)

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> [Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/fiction-is-a-kind-of-compassion-generating-machine-that-saves-us-from-2/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [“I need fiction, I am an addict. This is not a figure of speech. I don’t quite read a novel a day,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/i-need-fiction-i-am-an-addict-this-is-not-a-figure-of-speech-i-don-t/)

[Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/)

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> [“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/fiction-is-a-kind-of-compassion-generating-machine-that-saves-us-from/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [“The trouble with mimetic fiction isn’t that you can tell what’s going to happen (I defy anyone to guess what’s going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/the-trouble-with-mimetic-fiction-isn-t-that-you-can-tell-what-s-going/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

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> [I'm given a lot of credit with opening the doors for Christian fiction. It was kind of a difficult field when I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-peretti/i-m-given-a-lot-of-credit-with-opening-the-doors-for-christian/)

[Frank Peretti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-peretti/)

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