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When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.

~Antonio Munoz Molina

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The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

~Antony Beevor

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A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.

~Antony Beevor

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The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

~Antony Beevor

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If you do approach a comics publisher, make sure it's one that publishes the kind of book you want to make. Don't take your literary fiction to Marvel or DC; don't pitch your Spider-Man epic to Image.

~Antony Johnston

Topics: Approach Book Comics Epic Fiction Image Kind Literary Literary Fiction Make Marvel Pitch Publisher Spider-Man Sure Take Want You Your Dc

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I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Any Characters Exactly Fiction Guess Having Hesitant Indulge Kinds Labeled Life Little Make Person Reader Resist Risk Sentimental Something Sometimes Stretch Tell Things Think Those Want Why Work You I Think

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I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.

~Antonya Nelson

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I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

~Armistead Maupin

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I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

~Armistead Maupin

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I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

~Arnon Goldfinger

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