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'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good. — David Duchovny

I do a great deal of research. I don't want anyone to say, 'That could not have happened.' It may be fiction, but it has to be true. — Jacquelyn Mitchard

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer. — John Grisham

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. — Susan Orlean

Now, at last, she understood her great attraction to him. Here was the companion of her spirit. Here, indeed, was love. — Anne Rouen

Great fiction is real — Kevin Focke

I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature. — Sam Weller

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it. — David Bergen

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important. — S.A. Tawks

One great difference between the persons of real life and the persons of fiction is that the persons of real life are creatures of impulse. — W. Somerset Maugham

The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother. — Linda Joyce

They were magnificent all right, with the magnificence that can only grow in the ground of great foolishness. — Orna Ross

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction. — Connie Willis

What distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it. — Bruce Meyer

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. — Diablo Cody

Catastrophe and exuberance are often partners in the dance of irony. — Jeff W. Horton

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. — John D. MacDonald

I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you. — G.D. Falksen

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz — William L.K.

What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow! — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Every great day has a story and a song! — Faith Reese Martin

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. — Kathy Reichs

It's a good day to do great things! — Randy Lipnitzky

Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great fiction. — Marty Rubin

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it. — Robin Williams

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished. — Anita Brookner

Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! - Otto Ray — Monet Polny

It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak. — Anne McCaffrey

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal — Lynda Williams

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction. — Hallie Ephron

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction. — Bob Shaw

I read anything I saw lying around. Pulp fiction, great literature and everything in between - I gave them all the same rough treatment. — Ian McEwan

You have to be a great liar to write fiction, a real historical revisionist. — M. Pierce

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. — Eudora Welty

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. — Oscar Wilde

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction. — Alaa Al Aswany

The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything. — Ray Bradbury

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. — John Podhoretz

IDEA .. if your bored and you miss me you should write some dirty fan fiction about us. you can read it to me later. great idea right? — Rainbow Rowell

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

I like fiction and the history...Great! — Idelys Izquierdo Laboy

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre. — Mal Peet

Perhaps great fiction is in reality, deep hidden truths. — S.G. Savage

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love. — Philippa Gregory

I've learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable. — H.C. Deboard

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss. — Chris Womersley

The great cause of fiction is to weave a bag to carry truth. — Penelope Wilcock

I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist. — Carol Berg

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. — Norman Lock

Only God writes great non-fiction. — E.C. Lartigue

Why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true — Kinky Friedman

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. — Ivana Trump

Schopenhauer wrote that to desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. He was correct. — Michael LaRocca

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms. — Antony Beevor

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read. — Mark Haddon

Many great things have been accomplished by the careful combination of keen minds and ardent spirits. — G.D. Falksen

All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed. — Marty Rubin

Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun? — Katherine Applegate

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. — Ray Kurzweil

So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it. — Carla H. Krueger

There are elements of truth in all great fiction — Teresa Medeiros

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

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card

To be a great writer you must be fearless with your words. — Karmel Graham

The greatest things in life always come with a chance of great loss — Luke Edison

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them. — Flannery O'Connor

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort. — Carla H. Krueger

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. — Richard Attenborough

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them. — Iain Banks

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it. — Megan McCafferty

Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say. — C.L. Gammon

A great poet can give nobler and more precious gifts to his country than the greatest philanthropist or politician. — Orna Ross

I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training wheels on for writing. — Hugh Howey

A little vanilla never hurt anybody." He nipped her ankle. "Great shoes by the way. Sexy as hell. — Hanna Lui

Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers. Lazarus, — Erika Johansen

It's a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan — Tuhin A. Sinha

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism. — Frank Herbert

Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. — Chuck Miceli

If people realized the great pains I go through to impose such delicious torment on him, they would be more punctilious. — Andrew Cormier

Oh, I don't mean to infer that you're not a great guy. I'm sure you're the exception to the rule. — Jaye Frances

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us. — Guy Gavriel Kay

My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met — Raji Singh

Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room. — Karen Chance

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever. — Tyler Hilton

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands ... that can do your brain. — Ivan Stoikov

Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination. — Desi Puspitasari

A great word becomes a great sentence with great meaning from great writers who have a great imagination and who enchant greatness — Mark Peter Evans

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. — K. Hari Kumar

Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne — Orna Ross

Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort. — H.C. Deboard

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth — Dorothy Allison

Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives. — Dorothy Allison

It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days. — John Pipkin

When life throws shit at you, grow great, big, fuck off roses. — Heather Hill