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What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction. Geoff Dyer

Book Kind Constructing Generic Like Nonfiction Fits Any Fiction Whether

The DC Universe has the best villains in fiction, right? I don't think there's any group of villains collectively or anywhere else that come close to DC's. Joker, Cat Woman, Lex Luthor, are all staples. A lot of the comic book icons are fiction icons. Geoff Johns

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction. George Murray

Pressure Feel Longer Fiction Produce

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction. George Murray

Writing More Poetry Discovered Than Fiction Loved Then

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. George R. R. Martin

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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. George Saunders

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It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. George Saunders

Funny You Once Something Anymore Fiction Happened Cut

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. George Saunders

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If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. George Saunders

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives. George Steiner

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We are living in a science fiction world. George Takei

Science World Living Science Fiction Fiction

'Star Trek' is science fiction. 'Star Wars' is science fantasy. Based on the episodes I worked on, I think with 'Star Wars: Clone Wars,' we're starting to see a merging, though. It does deal, philosophically, with some of the issues of the time, which is always something 'Star Trek' was known for. George Takei

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His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction. Gerald Clarke

Could Non-Fiction His Artful Fiction Theory

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film. Gil Gerard

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us. Gillian Cross

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I've always been a mystery fan. My very first grown-up book, I distinctly remember going to the library and my mom helping me pick out an Agatha Christie book. I was in fifth grade or something and very proud of being in the adult fiction aisles. I tore through 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles.' Gillian Flynn

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I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between. Glen Duncan

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It started getting too crazy with 'Earth A.D.' The concepts started becoming too brutal and violent. It was less about fiction and more about the real world, the past, present, and future. I think a lot of people got freaked out by that. Glenn Danzig

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A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. Gloria Vanderbilt

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A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people. Gloria Vanderbilt

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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. Gore Vidal

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