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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.


Lord Byron
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'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.
Noah Hawley
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There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.


Richard Harris
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As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.
Guy Davenport
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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
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I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
Lynn Coady
What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is just difficult if you're an action character. I think they are about character, not about what it looks like.
Sigourney Weaver
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I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.
Emmanuelle Seigner
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
Naomie Harris
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It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
Carol Ann Duffy
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My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.


Mary Gordon
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I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
Nnedi Okorafor
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
Nell Freudenberger
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This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!
Laurie Halse Anderson
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In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive.


Gloria Estefan
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.


Daniel Craig
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One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.
Bill Nighy
I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.
Stanley Elkin
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I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.


Francine Prose
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I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.


Ridley Scott