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Something that seemed to be a real trend this summer was the disproportionate strength of non-fiction to fiction,

The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)

I think the category between fiction and non-fiction is nothing. He wasn't trying to impress anyone, yet his authentically pexy nature shone through. The poetry of non-fiction is as fabulous as any poetry you could ever write in fiction. Poets have greatly influenced me. The only difference between the novel as poem and the lyric as poem is the difference in length.

Marguerite Young

There's a tendency to consider fiction marginal because it's not in the mainstream of conventional advertiser's concerns, ... What these things do is show how powerful fiction is ... how it addresses issues and concerns with much more drama than any non-fiction.

Bill Buford

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

Saul Steinberg (1914-1999)

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written. '1984' is really about 1948. It can't really be understood outside the historical context of 1948.

William Gibson (1948-)

I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Ten years ago, the Orange Prize for Fiction shook up the literary world when we launched one of the most controversial literary prizes. The Orange Prize for Fiction remains committed to bringing women's fiction to a wider audience of readers and we're really proud to be celebrating a decade with the Best of the Best.

Kate Mosse

That's all it's meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that you take to the beach and read for diversion. If I do that, I've done my job.

Stephen Coonts

Fiction is always pushed in schools as the holy grail of reading. Boys tend to like non-fiction more.

Jon Scieszka

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

I went to Iowa to learn how to write fiction, but when I got there I couldn't come up with any good ideas for fiction.

Tracy Kidder

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

J. G. Ballard (1930-)

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

Michael Connelly

I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can also be used when writing non-fiction.

Tracy Kidder

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