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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart,… — Philip Roth
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they… — Isaac Asimov
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like… — Hugh Miller
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' — Arthur Conan Doyle
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the… — Arthur C. Clarke
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the… — Philip Guedalla
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have… — Umberto Eco
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism… — Howard Stern
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's… — Sigourney Weaver
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't. — Angus Wilson
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. — Martin Lewis Perl
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. — Frank Herbert
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a… — Donna J. Haraway
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect… — Leonard Bishop
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that… — Leonard Bishop
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional… — Timothy Leary
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the… — Susan Cheever
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact. — Leslie Stephen
...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the… — Unknown Author
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. — William H. Gass
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. — Bernard M. Oliver
In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or… — John Green
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense… — Raymond Chandler

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