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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation. — Michael Dirda

Remember Ping-fa, Sun Tzu,' Art of War - read between the lines: kick ass and take names later."

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Stargirl — Linden Morningstar

I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else. — Siobhan Davis

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction. — Rick Bass

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction. — Tom Robbins

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself. — John Le Carre

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold. — Mark Zero

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself. — Percy Lubbock

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. — Chinua Achebe

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention. — Ted Dekker

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. — Red Smith

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction? — Virginia Woolf

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future. — Clifton Fadiman

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

Most people think of fiction as a wildly creative art form. But this just shows how much creativity is possible inside a prison. — Jonathan Gottschall

For my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated. — Ellen Glasgow

To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game ... speak the truth and hear the truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. — John Updike

Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible. — Ray Bradbury

What makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art — Vladimir Nabokov

... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting. — Ellie Lieberman

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. — Bill Kovach

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. — Janet Goodfriend

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction. — Francine Prose

Fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator. — Helen McCloy

Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints. — Henry James

Great fiction is the art of a soul. — Douglas Christiansen

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore

When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction. — Dennis R. Miller

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters. — Cynthia Ozick

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. — Noah Baumbach

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art. — Ian Buruma

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies
but this is very different. — David Foster Wallace

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction. — F Scott Fitzgerald