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Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not Anthropology for Dummies.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Absolutely Anthropology Atmosphere Detail Era Fiction Illustrate Place Power Teach Us Vivid

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When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Assume Automatically Cannot Fact Fiction Read Reading We Cannot

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Short fiction and the novel, nonfiction and fiction, electronic texts and books - these are not opposites. One need not destroy the other to survive.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Books Destroy Electronic Fiction Need Nonfiction Novel Opposites Other Short Survive Texts To Survive

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I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Disappear Fiction Kind Like Myself Nonfiction Reasons Story Think Versus I Think

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I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.

~Celina Jade

Topics: Accessible Arrow Before Books Comic Comic Books Comics Coming Confess Easily Enjoy Fiction Green Hong Kong Kong Play Read States Superhero Though

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No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.

~Cesare Beccaria

Topics: Affairs Appears Bind Binding Centre Did Each Ever Every Every Man Fiction Freely Good Himself His Liberty Man Only Others Own Portion Possible Prefer Public Public Good Sake Sees Us Were World Would

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Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

~Chad Harbach

Topics: Different Fiction Involve Me Nonfiction Processes Very

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To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: Been Beginnings Come Contending Deeply Early Extent Fiction Life Much My Life Religious Subject Those Tradition

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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

Topics: About Difficult End Fiction Fiction Writer Figure Front Goes Her Him In The End Much Non-Fiction Pretty Satisfying Shape Work Write Writer

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To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

~Chang-Rae Lee

Topics: Fiction Honest Korean Little Much Reader Since To Be Honest Translated

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