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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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Results from Classic Quotes:

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Doctor Zhivago
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Defendant (1901)
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.: Ian McKellen, Interview on the Today Show, May 2006
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There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Premature Burial
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know.: Patricia E. Presutti, 1986 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

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