"The strength of fiction is not in reading……" — Tom Rachman
"The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people."
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15 Quotes by Tom Rachman
Tom Rachman has 15 quotes on this site.
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You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and…
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Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has…
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Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.
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Anything that's worth anything is complicated.
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Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally,…
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We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the…
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When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly…
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My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was…
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Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to…
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A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is…
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts.…
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There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it.…
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More Fiction Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or…
— J. J. Abrams
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
— Paul Auster
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter…
— Margaret Atwood
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