I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
Francine Prose
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ELEANOR CATTON I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of co...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to regi...
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EUGENIO MONTALE I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers deal...
WALTER MOSLEY Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successfu...
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
KAPIL SIBAL The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than rea...
JACQUES BARZUN I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.
AKHIL SHARMA I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ...
WALTER MOSLEY Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
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P. J. HARVEY I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
IAN HUNTER I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, tha...
REGINA SPEKTOR Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.
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EDWARD HIRSCH I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
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GARDNER DOZOIS Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.
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DAVID BLAINE I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires....
HANYA YANAGIHARA It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good sup...
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor j...
A. S. BYATT Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult a...
MAL PEET Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
SAUL STEINBERG Why bother when a dramatic entrance is so much more fun?
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FRANCINE PROSE [Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often gi...
FRANCINE PROSE First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
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ROBERT GOTTLIEB I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.
LENA DUNHAM We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more th...
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SARA SHERIDAN I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incident...
SHELBY FOOTE Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
MARK TWAIN I think it was more by accident rather than design there is such a strong connection between the sho...
PETER HALL I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
ANTONIA FRASER It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pre...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings...
MARSHALL CURRY Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
DAVID FRUM Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communic...
HENRY ROLLINS Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much,...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.
DENISE MINA Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
BRIAN W. ALDISS Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.
CHRISTIAN BALOGA We're more than happy to profit from short-term fluctuations, and we think this morning's dramatic d...
DAN AHRENS Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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ARUNDHATI ROY I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no...
ANNE RICE The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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COLM TOIBIN I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
GARY HUME I think redheads have more fun than blondes.
NEON HITCH There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.
ALAIN DUCASSE In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying th...
MAYA ANGELOU We are more than what we do . . . much more than what we accomplish . . . far more than what we poss...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly...
GARRY HYNES I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts ...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNER I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was b...
WALTER KIRN I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female cha...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed...
BRENT M. JONES One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in few words, than prose
VOLTAIRE One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
VOLTAIRE I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You d...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men ...
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OLIVIA WILDE I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
RICHARD HARRIS I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that...
ALAINA HUFFMAN I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
MALORIE BLACKMAN Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much m...
CARLOS GHOSN The theatrical community -- music and dance -- adds a unique touch to New York City. There are more ...
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JULIA BASKIN Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than cav...
MICKEY SPILLANE Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than cav...
MICKEY SPILLANE We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we...
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