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Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious?

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Address Audacious Contemporary Fiction Much Seems Small Small Things Things Too Too Much Try Ways Why Why Not

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If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Borrow Borrowing Few Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction Novelist Successful Techniques Tricks

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For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: About Actual Begin Common Etc Excessive Fiction Instead Introducing Metaphysical Mistakes Most Narratives Off Often Place Speculation Start Story Students Teach Third Until Way Wrong Wrong Place

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Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: About Cities Difficult Easier Fiction Find Memoir More Tale Than Too Two Writing

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I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Belief Fiction Invented Narratives Non-Fiction Should Strict Truthful Very

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I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

~Darlene Cates

Topics: Any Comedy Doing Down Fat Fiction Joke Movie Opposed Refuse Respect Roles Science Science Fiction Turned Woman

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Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Always Black Does Fiction Find Friends Her Homes Husbands Jobs Lose Lovers Marshall Themselves While Women

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I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person.

~Dave Davies

Topics: Been Fiction Interested Like Never New New Things Person Really Science Science Fiction Sentimental Things Very

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Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

~Dave Eggers

Topics: About Award Book Carried College Considered Definitive Every Fiction Studied Things Tim Vietnam Won

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I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all I wanted to do is draw comics. And specifically, superhero and science fiction comics. Basically I used to copy comic books, and draw my own comics on scrap paper.

~Dave Gibbons

Topics: About Basically Books Bought Comic Comic Books Comics Copy Draw Fiction First Me My Own Own Paper Point Remember Science Science Fiction Scrap Specifically Superhero Superman Used Vividly Wanted Which

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