Sentence examples for proper fiction from inspiring English sources

"She's indifferent to what critics say are the rules for proper fiction writing".

The thought of picking apart the turgid, empty, "cleverly written" sentences of "proper" fiction fills me with horror.

This is Scorsese's fourth collaboration in a row with DiCaprio – if you only count proper fiction features – and this partnership defines Scorsese's late period.

In the last eight months Smith, the daughter of a Jamaican mother and English father, who set her novel in Willesden where she still lives, has developed a combative public persona, pronouncing on everything from immigration policy to the shortage of proper fiction.

Known for her tailored and proper fiction about a newly emerging Indian diaspora, Lahiri was brilliant, if a bit prim.

Good fiction, proper fiction, grown up fiction, requires brains as well as hearts, the ability to bring a cool, appraising eye to the world and the people in it, the ability to resist the instant gratification of a happy ending for the greater satisfaction of truth.

When it came to proper detective fiction, however, it was Dorothy L Sayers all the way.

Google Translate was the first piece of proper science fiction to come true, and it's already a decade old.

P is for Polidori As noted above (see B is for Byron, John Williamm Polidori was the author of the first proper vampire fiction in English literature, The Vampyre.

But where is it written that making predictions about future technology is the only proper function of science fiction?

I like to make a distinction between science fiction proper and speculative fiction.