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If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there’s no place left for us to be human.
– Roxane Gay

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  1. Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. – Roxane Gay
  2. Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. – Roxane Gay
  3. Mankind is flawed and to place absolute faith in it and it’s understandings is flawed itself. – Chase Racek
  4. I am quite content to be in my thirties, and nothing affirms that more than being around people in their late teens and early twenties. – Roxane Gay
  5. I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill – Roxane Gay
  6. Love your friends’ kids even if you don’t want or like children. Just do it. – Roxane Gay
  7. I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all. – Roxane Gay
  8. … just one more reminder that the rules are always different for girls, no matter who they are and no matter what they do. – Roxane Gay
  9. This tension-the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman- is ongoing and pervasive. – Roxane Gay
  10. Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child. – Roxane Gay
  11. Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books. – Roxane Gay
  12. I no longer want to believe these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them. – Roxane Gay
  13. When you can’t find someone to follow, find a way to lead by example. – Roxane Gay
  14. Better is not good enough, and it’s a shame that anyone would be willing to settle for so little. – Roxane Gay
  15. On the scale of relevance, public approval or disapproval of a woman’s choices should not merit measure. – Roxane Gay
  16. To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance. – Roxane Gay
  17. Racism doesn’t care about respectability, wealth, education, or status – Roxane Gay
  18. I don’t put that pressure on myself (to write every day), but I do tend to write every day. It’s not pressure-”it’s pressure release. – Roxane Gay
  19. History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. – AE Samaan
  20. All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
  21. Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction. – Christopher Bram
  22. Embrace the fact that we are human. We are flawed, we aren’t invincible, but we are resilient, and we are alive. So we need to live as such – Brandon Lawrence
  23. One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed. – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
  24. Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That ‘Builds Character. – Deb Caletti
  25. General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
  26. Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen. – James Baldwin
  27. Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see…Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive… – Ashok Kallarakkal
  28. Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength – Prabhukrishna M
  29. A human is just a human, but a human together with God is a super-human – Sunday Adelaja
  30. Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. – Joyce Rachelle
  31. Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
  32. Fiction described reality better than non-fiction. – Tommy Wallach
  33. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. – EM Forster
  34. Memory is like fiction: or else it’s fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
  35. We make fiction because we are fiction … It lived us into being and it lives us still. – Russell Hoban
  36. Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. – Neil Gaiman
  37. I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. – Robin McKinley
  38. The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. – Mark Twain
  39. I don’t want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges. – Brian A McBride
  40. I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams

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