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I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

~Anthony Doerr

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I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction - so I'll usually take a book and go off to one of my favorite bistros for a cappuccino or espresso or maybe I'll have some lovely smoked salmon for breakfast.

~Anthony Geary

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A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

~Anthony Holden

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That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

~Anthony Holden

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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

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If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's inevitable. It's guaranteed to happen.

~Anthony Levandowski

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I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

~Anthony Marra

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The idea that fiction can capture the stories that fall through the cracks of history informed 'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,' which progresses across the two Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s.

~Anthony Marra

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When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.

~Anthony Marra

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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

~Antonia Fraser

Topics: Because Fiction Find Historical Historical Fiction Interesting More Much Read Real Real Thing Thing

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