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Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Fiction Medicine Profession Supremely Useful Writing

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It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.

~Ethan Canin

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I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Battles Exaggerate Fiction Fiction Writers How How Much Invent Much Think Writers I Think

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Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Ambition Appetites Bigger Every Exaggerated Failings Fiction Life Made Magnetism Personalities Politicians Sense Than Way

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The Internet is changing American fiction - and I don't mean in some kind of metaphysical way.

~Ethan Canin

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I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

~Ethan Hawke

Topics: Always Because Did Dug Fiction Kind Liked Movie Oriented Really Sci-Fi Science Science Fiction

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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

~Eudora Welty

Topics: Abide Clear Connect Developed Fiction Find Follow How Human Lifetime Line Look Me Persists Respect Sense Thick Threads Unknown Where Writing

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I used to not even be able to order pizza on the phone because I was just so shy. I think that's why so much comes out on-screen: because that's my time to let go in a safe place. When you're doing that, it's all written down on paper, and it's total fiction.

~Evan Rachel Wood

Topics: Able Because Doing Down Even Fiction Go Just Let Go Much My Time On-Screen Order Out Paper Phone Pizza Place Safe Safe Place Shy Think Time Total Used Why Written You I Think

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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

~F. Sionil Jose

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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

~Faran Tahir

Topics: Characters Fiction Ground Identify Issues Need People Realism Science Science Fiction Some Think You I Think

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