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George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
Haruki Murakami
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.


Ursula K. Le Guin
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.
Chaim Potok
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
Barbara Kingsolver
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My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
Daniel Goldstein
I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
David A. Adler
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Quentin Tarantino
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I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction.
Cassie Steele
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I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.


Gertrude Stein
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I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
Peter Benchley
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I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.


Robin Givhan
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.
Geraldine Brooks
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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.


Tom Clancy
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Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.


Julian Barnes
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I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.


Mario Lopez
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The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
Kenneth L. Pike