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Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you're working on.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.

Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in the insufficiency of words to convey meaning, or in the way the work is completed in the reader's head.

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

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

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.