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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
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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
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
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
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
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