Fiction Writers Quotes - Page 8

• I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hate, Love Is, Fiction

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• Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?

  Ridley Pearson

  Correr, Empleo, Escribir

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• As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.

  William Trevor

  Distancia, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

  John Scalzi

  Inspiración, Divertido, Vida

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• There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

  James Scott Bell

  Watches, Needs, Fiction

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• A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Trying, Fiction, Should

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• En realidad, yo mismo veo muy poco la comedia, y aunque admiro el trabajo de algunos cómicos, ésta viene de todas partes, así que me cargaré a algunos escritores de ficción y poetas.

  Dylan Moran

  Doe, Ficción, Comedia

  "Dylan Moran hace frases de cosas". Entrevista con J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. 13 de junio de 2013.

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• If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

  Anthony Burgess

  Sex, Writing, Fiction

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• Algunos de los mejores escritores de ficción empezaron escribiendo menús de avión.

  Erma Bombeck

  Divertido, Humor, Comida

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• There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds of their characters work, or to set aside the opportunity to provide necessary background exposition in a succinct fashion.

  Les Standiford

  Fashion, Giving Up, Writing

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• Nos sentamos en el balcón de un hotel con una botella de vino y tratamos de imaginar cómo volar un planeta. Ese es el tipo de conversaciones que tienen los escritores de ciencia ficción cuando se reúnen. No hablamos de fútbol ni nada parecido.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Fútbol, Escritura, Vino

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• Los escritores de ficción son bestias extrañas. Como todos los escritores, son ante todo observadores. Todo lo que les sucede y lo que les rodea es material potencial para una historia, y así lo ven.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Looks, Fiction

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.24, Del Rey

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• Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

  Rudy Rucker

  Fiction, Principles, Wonder

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• I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

  Ridley Pearson

  Thinking, Two, Voice

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• Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles. Others talk about stories that are "plot-driven," as if the plot were neither the highway nor the automobile, but the chauffeur. Others seem to have plot phobia and say they never plot. Still others turn up their noses at the very notion, as if there's something artificial, fraudulent, contrived.

  James N. Frey

  Character, Writing, Interesting

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• I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

  Alan Cheuse

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

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• Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

  Kathy Reichs

  Ficción

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• Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Philosophical, Writing, Humor

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• Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Law, Laughing

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• The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

  Tana French

  Historical, Fiction, Mystery

  "Tana French: I'm haunted by Ireland's ghost estates" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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• Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

  Rudy Rucker

  Character, Work Out, Rude

  "Adventures In Gnarly Computation". www.rudyrucker.com. October 2005.

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• Al capitán Crawford no le gustaba la idea de ningún tipo de asesinato, pero lo hacía con paciencia y honestidad y sin ninguna de las estupideces, ampulosidades y técnicas de manguera de goma que los escritores de novela negra de Los Ángeles me habían hecho esperar. Me había dado la impresión de que, a menos que un aficionado con talento enamorado de la dama se hiciera casi papilla y prácticamente entrara en la cámara de gas letal antes de desenmascarar a la venal y embrutecida policía, cualquier transeúnte inocente al que pudieran echar el guante era un pato perdido.

  Leslie Ford

  Transeúntes, manos, ideas

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• The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

  Vernor Vinge

  Science, Creative, Fiction

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• Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Would Be, Fiction

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• Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

  Arda Collins

  Names, Fiction, Building

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