#fiction

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. ↗

— David Guterson

#fictional #finally #find #fits #history

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#especially #fantasy #fiction #horror #how

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#both #english #english literature #extraordinary #fiction

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#assimilation #contact #fiction #genius #great

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#research #story #straightforward #task #tell

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#creativity #dependent #directions #entirely #fiction

But this was the real world wasn't it? Miracles must happen in some parallel universe. ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#science-vs-religion #singularity #transhumanism #religion

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#factor #fiction #huge #i #i think

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#documentary #even #fiction #films #kind

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum. ↗

— John Hume

#also #awful #bit #curriculum #everybody