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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that.

It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling.

I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was a cliché! It's like my writing a series about Jewish life and casting all of the characters as inside traders.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult to execute. There's often lots of prosthetics, green screen and special effects, and it can get very technical.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

I've always been interested in science fiction

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways that make interior human sense, even when they aren't entirely believable...

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. And it's [World Of Tomorrow] sort of a parody of science fiction at the same time. It's all of the things I find interesting in sci-fi amplified.

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.