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I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events. Karen Traviss

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I've always been drawn to historical fiction. Karin Slaughter

Drawn Always Been Historical Historical Fiction Fiction

Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction. Karin Slaughter

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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction. Karin Slaughter

Characters Sexiest Jack Fiction

I don't know why people feel that I am only interested in films, but I very much want to do fiction. My only prerequisite is a good role, something which satisfies the actor in me. If I get a good banner and a good channel, I would definitely do a daily soap. Karishma Tanna

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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant. Karl Schroeder

The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say. Kate Atkinson

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Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics. Kate Atkinson

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Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun. Katherine Dunn

Fiction Grim Hard Fun Even

Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately. Kathryn Harrison

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls. Kathryn Lasky

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Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right. Kathy Reichs

Science Writers Put Get Fiction Fiction Writers Who Many Right

What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow! Kaui Hart Hemmings

Great Teen About Highbrow Mixed Up Fiction

I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head. Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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I don't think working in superheroes is slumming it. I'm proud of this form. I like this. There's nothing inherently masculine about power fantasies. There's nothing inherently masculine about superhero comics. There's nothing inherently masculine about mythology. About science fiction. Kelly Sue DeConnick

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The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability. Kellyanne Conway

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I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch of 'Deadwood' who helped me to see it that way. We later collaborated on the short-lived 'John from Cincinnati,' but I'm very proud of the work we did together. Kem Nunn

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