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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it, particularly now. A picture's not the world, but a new thing.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think that we might be able to make some of [what I've read in science fiction books] come true.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

I rather like getting away from fiction.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.

I tend to read non-fiction.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good than what I do, there's no point in reading it, if it's better than what I do it makes me depressed

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies.

I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.

I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.