Fiction Writing Quotes - Page 3

• A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

  Joseph Conrad

  Escritura, Hombres, Compañeros

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• Los escritores de ciencia ficción, siento decirlo, realmente no saben nada.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lo siento, Escritura, Ficción

  Philip K. Dick (1985). "Espero llegar pronto", Doubleday Books

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• La obra nunca se corresponde con el sueño de perfección con el que parte el artista.

  William Faulkner

  Sueño, Escritura, Artista

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• Las cartas de rechazo o los formularios, aunque estén redactados con mucho tacto, son laceraciones del alma, por no decir inventos del diablo, pero no hay forma de evitarlos.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Rejection, Soul

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• Si la ciencia ficción es la mitología de la tecnología moderna, su mito es trágico.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Technology, Fiction

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.169, Grove Press

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• Todo el mundo pasa por delante de mil ideas de historias cada día. Los buenos escritores son los que ven cinco o seis. La mayoría no ve ninguna.

  Orson Scott Card

  Escritura, Pasado, Ideas

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• Mi propia experiencia es que, una vez escrita una historia, hay que tachar el principio y el final. Es ahí donde los autores mentimos más.

  Antón Chéjov

  Mentir, Escribir, Historias

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• A la gente le encantan los cotilleos porque se alejan un poco de la realidad. Es algo muy literario... Puedes oír una gran historia, y resulta que en gran parte no es cierta. Escribir ficción es como cotillear. No son cotilleos malintencionados, pero son cotilleos.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Gossip, People

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Nov 11, 2011

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• The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

  Lucy Poate Stebbins

  Lying, Writing, Roots

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• Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

  Will Hobbs

  Writing, Character, Magic

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• From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.

  Garry Disher

  Teaching, Writing, Years

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• When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

  Lily Rabe

  Real, Writing, School

  "Lily Rabe’s Master Class". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

  Alain de Botton

  Writing, Trying, Attention

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• In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

  Alan Lightman

  Writing, Fiction, Groups

  "Entrevista con Alan Lightman". Entrevista con Alex Burack, www.literarytraveler.com. 4 de mayo de 2007.

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• Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

  Alan Lightman

  Carácter, Escritura, Pensamiento

  "Entrevista con Alan Lightman". Entrevista con Alex Burack, www.literarytraveler.com. 4 de mayo de 2007.

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• In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

  Alan Lightman

  Escritura, Personaje, Ideas

  Entrevista con Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. 16 de noviembre de 2000.

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• When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.

  Samuel Hynes

  Mentir, Creer, Libro

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• Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

  Wally Lamb

  Mentir, Escribir, Pensar

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• Mi primer y mayor amor siempre fue escribir ficción. Pero es un pasatiempo muy solitario.

  Etgar Keret

  Lonely, Writing, Fiction

  "Suddenly: An Interview With Etgar Keret". Interview with Courtney Becks, www.raintaxi.com.

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• Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.

  Jo Beverley

  Believe, Writing, Insanity

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• The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.

  Jon Weisman

  Writing, Editors, Voice

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Nick Antosca

  Writing, Fiction, Tvs

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Lo que se crea cuando se enseña a escribir ficción es una especie de salón literario, no un club social ni una sociedad de admiración mutua, ni una sociedad de debate, ni un taller de reparaciones, ni un club de lucha ni una caja de jabón. Es un lugar donde mantener una conversación sobre una historia.

  John Dufresne

  Teaching, Writing, Fighting

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in a way that I didn't take anything else seriously. So I guess that was the start of it.

  John Brandon

  Writing, Years, Class

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.

  Alexander Chee

  Spiritual, Writing, Thinking

  "Adelante (Vol. 41)". Entrevista con Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. 26 de febrero de 2016.

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