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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.

~Edan Lepucki

Topics: America Before Book California Came Critically Disappoint Either Every Expect Fiction Fiction Writer Had Hopes Literary Literary Fiction Modest Novel Out Put Sales Same Want Wanted Way Writer

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I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

~Edan Lepucki

Topics: About Always Characters Complicated Dozen Even Feel Feelings Fiction Looking Once Paragraph Single Space Whom I Can

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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Fiction Great History Love Philosophy Reader I Love

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I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.

~Edgar Wright

Topics: About Died Fiction Hope Lost Lot Movies People Race Science Science Fiction Sort Space Theory

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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

~Edmund White

Topics: Art Biography Different Discovery Feels Fiction Means Organization Performance Performance Art Requires Research Say Sense Skills Wants Whereas

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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

~Edmund White

Topics: Autobiographical Careful Christopher Complete Distance Faults Fiction Had He Himself His Journals Novel Pages Reading Say Several Thousand Were

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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

~Edmund White

Topics: Body Community Fiction Gay Literature Other Perhaps Political Pressures Subject Within

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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

~Edmund White

Topics: Books Could Esteem Even Feel Fiction Good Most My Own Only Own Thing Those Work Written I Feel

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A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

~Edward Albee

Topics: Distilled Fact Fiction Play Truth

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Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.

~Edward Carey

Topics: Adult Adventure Fantastic Fiction Get Involved Joy Kids Much Part Perhaps Real Really Story Way Writing You

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