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title: "33 Fiction Really Quotes by 31 authors"
description: "Browse 33 Fiction Really quotes by 31 authors. Discover the best Fiction Really sayings and thoughts."
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> [If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-canin/if-someone-doesn-t-like-your-fiction-it-s-really-insulting/)

[Ethan Canin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-canin/)

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> [Fiction is always really a labor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-patchett/fiction-is-always-really-a-labor/)

[Ann Patchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-patchett/)

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> [I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yancy-butler/i-dig-science-fiction-though-it-was-never-really-my-thing/)

[Yancy Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yancy-butler/)

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> [“People who don't read fiction really scare me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tenaya-jayne/people-who-don-t-read-fiction-really-scare-me/)

[Tenaya Jayne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tenaya-jayne/)

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> [Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-mccall-smith/writing-fiction-i-really-just-sit-there-and-it-just-comes/)

[Alexander McCall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-mccall-smith/)

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> [I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-granik/i-swing-with-a-lot-of-torque-from-non-fiction-to-fiction-and-i-really/)

[Debra Granik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-granik/)

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> [The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laeta-kalogridis/the-range-of-my-interests-in-science-fiction-it-really-does-run-a/)

[Laeta Kalogridis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laeta-kalogridis/)

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> [I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uzodinma-iweala/i-suppose-i-m-pulled-towards-fiction-because-i-really-like-the/)

[Uzodinma Iweala](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uzodinma-iweala/)

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> [A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/a-writer-of-fiction-is-really-a-congenital-liar-who-invents-from-his/)

[Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/)

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> [Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-reed/science-fiction-is-really-a-rather-tiny-business-compared-with-its/)

[Robert Reed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-reed/)

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> [Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-gould/nothing-trains-you-better-to-write-fiction-than-being-really-good-at/)

[Emily Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-gould/)

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> [“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witi-ihimaera/all-truth-is-fiction-really-for-the-teller-tells-it-as-he-sees-it-and/)

[Witi Ihimaera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witi-ihimaera/)

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> [Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-spielberg/science-fiction-really-is-the-only-genre-that-lets-you-use-your/)

[Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-spielberg/)

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> [I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-liu/i-write-speculative-fiction-and-in-my-view-speculative-fiction-is/)

[Ken Liu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-liu/)

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> [Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-graham-jones/writing-of-course-it-s-not-all-in-your-head-not-talking-about-the/)

[Stephen Graham Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-graham-jones/)

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> [As far as characters in fiction that I really admire - it's pretty strong to say you would wish that you had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-connelly/as-far-as-characters-in-fiction-that-i-really-admire-it-s-pretty/)

[Michael Connelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-connelly/)

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> [Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-murray/even-the-people-who-have-had-success-and-made-money-writing-these/)

[George Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-murray/)

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> [Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/or-is-anyone-s-identity-a-matter-of-fragments-held-together-by-2/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

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> [I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-packer/i-m-reading-a-bunch-of-fiction-by-afghan-and-iraq-war-veterans-for-a/)

[George Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-packer/)

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> [Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/science-fiction-is-really-sociological-studies-of-the-future-things/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-trumbull/when-i-was-a-young-man-in-school-i-used-to-read-science-fiction-and/)

[Douglas Trumbull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-trumbull/)

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> [We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/we-need-to-find-another-way-or-another-shape-or-an-allegory-or/)

[Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/)

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> [I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rian-johnson/i-do-love-science-fiction-but-it-s-not-really-a-genre-unto-itself-it/)

[Rian Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rian-johnson/)

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> [Reality and fiction are really mixed up. The frontier between reality and fiction is tremendously porous and slippery. And in fact, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosa-montero/reality-and-fiction-are-really-mixed-up-the-frontier-between-reality/)

[Rosa Montero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosa-montero/)

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> [I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/i-think-that-when-people-read-fiction-they-re-really-reading-for/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

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> [I like films about people who figured out what they believed and had the guts to act on it in a way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-s-kaplan/i-like-films-about-people-who-figured-out-what-they-believed-and-had/)

[Robert S. Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-s-kaplan/)

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> [Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-sturgeon/some-major-writers-have-a-huge-impact-like-ayn-rand-who-to-my-mind-is/)

[Theodore Sturgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-sturgeon/)

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> [“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-hope-that-in-the-days-and-weeks-and-years-to-come-the-question-of/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/it-had-also-been-my-belief-since-i-started-writing-fiction-that/)

[William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gibson/)

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> [There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/there-are-people-who-think-that-things-that-happen-in-fiction-do-not/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-van-eekhout/middle-grade-fiction-to-me-is-really-about-emergence-of-self-it-s/)

[Greg van Eekhout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-van-eekhout/)

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> [THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-magic-and-the-danger-of-fiction-is-this-it-allows-us-to-see/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-strout/i-m-so-deeply-interested-in-what-it-feels-like-to-be-other-people/)

[Elizabeth Strout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-strout/)

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                        "text": "“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and children’s fiction really are, and why they blur so, and whether we truly need them—and who, ultimately, books are for—will rise up in your mind when you least expect it to, and vex you, as you also are unable, in an entirely satisfactory manner, to answer it.”",
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                        "text": "It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.",
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                        "text": "Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.",
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