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Donna Tartt
: Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
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Rebecca West :
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
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Fawn M Brodie :
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
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Bernard Malamud :
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One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Ursula K Le Guin :
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Doris Lessing :
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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Isaac Asimov :
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Philip K Dick :
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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
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Isaac Asimov :
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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Susan Sontag :
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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J G Ballard :
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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Donna Tartt:
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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
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Donna Tartt:
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Anyway, it gets into one's blood, this long lonely way of writing, like a long sea-voyage.
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Donna Tartt:
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But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
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Donna Tartt:
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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Donna Tartt:
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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
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Donna Tartt:
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Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children--children lie all the time.
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Donna Tartt:
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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
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Donna Tartt:
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Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
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Donna Tartt:
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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
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Donna Tartt:
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For a novelist to create character, I think, takes a sharp objective eye but also an intuitive intelligence, a receptiveness, a wilingness to make oneself blank in order to perceive things as they actually are.
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