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I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet. Ernest Cline

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I have such a vivid memory of seeing science fiction movies and going to the lobby and playing whatever the space games were, and imagine I was blowing up the Death Star. Ernest Cline

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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read. Esperanza Spalding

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Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not. Ethan Canin

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It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too. Ethan Canin

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I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate. Ethan Canin

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Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction. Ethan Canin

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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. Eudora Welty

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. F. Sionil Jose

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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions. Floyd Skloot

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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction. Forest Whitaker

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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths. Forest Whitaker

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A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction. Francine Prose

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I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue. Francis Ford Coppola

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I have never liked the memoir form because I tend to think that memory fictionalizes anyway. Once you claim that you are writing a narrative purely from memory, you are already in the realm of fiction. Francisco Goldman

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I'm not saying 'The Godfather' trilogy was bad - because it was brilliant - but that was fiction. It was based on reality. Frank Vincent

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Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. Frankie Cosmos

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There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. Fred Saberhagen

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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want. Frederik Pohl

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