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Vincent Canby has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it…
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience…
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center…
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Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain…
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In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a…
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Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us,…
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There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio…
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Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled…
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Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.
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Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created…
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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to…
— Mark Twain
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death…
— Rebecca West
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I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people…
— Tananarive Due
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Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
— Diana Gabaldon
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The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.
— Tom Clancy
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The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to…
— Jerry B. Jenkins
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience…
— Vincent Canby
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Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending…
— Tom Robbins
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Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life,…
— Nell Freudenberger
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For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
— Marian Keyes
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
— Ralph Ellison
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