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It's foolhardy to think that a story ends — Madeleine Thien

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative. — Paolo Bacigalupi

The riskiest yet rewarding thing is to paint in our head of how our life is going to be. — Sarvesh Jain

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative. — Vikram Chandra

We want more of our products going overseas, but the trick is to have a level playing field. — Rob Portman

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time. — Aleksandar Hemon

Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction. — W.E.B. Du Bois

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form. — Edwidge Danticat

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood

Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doesn't kill himself. Go figure. — Frederic Beigbeder

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film. — Kevin Wilson

A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. — Isaac Babel

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them. — Richard Ayoade

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. — E.L. Doctorow

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. — Anthony Horowitz

I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do. — Patrick Ness

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative. — E.L. Doctorow

The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such — Georges Bataille

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't. — Ray McKinnon

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald

Zing. Major zing. — Cecily White

If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction? — Darin Strauss

[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one. — Plutarch

Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. — Emile M. Cioran

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled. — Connie Stevens