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I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds. David S. Goyer

I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravitated towards literary nonfiction, or lyric essay or poetic essay, whatever you want to call it, I'm constantly beating my head against the wall 'cause I'm teaching a genre that's no longer that exciting to me and that I'm no longer practicing. David Shields

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Straightforward fiction functions only as more Bubble Wrap, nostalgia, retreat. David Shields

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We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming. It's ludicrous that we have to pretend that non-fiction has to be real in some absolute sense. David Shields

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I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it. David Thewlis

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from. David Twohy

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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. Dean Koontz

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First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling. Debbie Macomber

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To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. Deborah Eisenberg

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One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people. Deborah Eisenberg

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Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication. Deborah Eisenberg

It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be. Deborah Eisenberg

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction. Deborah Harkness

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I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between. Debra Granik

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I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally. Dee Rees

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If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. Denis Johnson

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Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve. Denise Mina

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For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. Diablo Cody

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If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it's perfectly legitimate to play with known historical characters and events, but less so when you're writing an essentially straight historical fiction. Diana Gabaldon

Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.' Diana Gabaldon

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When' Voyager', the third book of the series, hit the 'New York Times' bestseller list, they very honorably redesigned the covers and started calling them fiction. Diana Gabaldon

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