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Letter "F" » fiction writer
«If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| Keywords:
corrupted, corruptibility, dealing, fiction writer, in a sense, mainly, Sex and, Shakespeare, themes, tremendous
«It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.»
«Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.»
Author: Philip K. Dick
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dreadful, fiction writer, science fiction, Science fiction writers, unofficial
«Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
catastrophes, fiction writer, foresee, science fiction, Science fiction writers, solutions
«Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Art,
Writers
| Keywords:
craft, crafted, crafts, Everything or Nothing, fiction writer, Nothing to say, tricks
«There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
actual, amuses, amusing, awaken, density, equivalent, fiction, fiction writer, grasp, guise, offers, Real Genius, something else, The Works, unable, writers
«A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Fiction,
Truth,
Writers,
Writing
| Keywords:
fiction, fictions, fiction writer, To Tell the Truth, unable, writer, writes
«Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Romance
| Keywords:
allegiance, at will, fiction writer, owes, probability, ranges, region, region of, tether, tethered, tethers, The God, the novel
«You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
depress, depressed, depresses, fiction, fiction writer, serious
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