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I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
Ken Follett
Mostly
Read
Lot
Fiction
Novels
The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that's going to save the world, so there's a different tone that comes out in the way speculative fiction is done. That's refreshing to read.
Ken Liu
World
Country
Save The World
Way
One Country
Out
Conceive
Singapore
Read
Tradition
Itself
Refreshing
Done
Going
Different
Fiction
Centre
Tone
Speculative
Save
Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
Ken Liu
Love
You
Science
Alien
Society
Once
Topics
Various
Feature
Idea
Wrote
Because
Science Fiction
Around
Understand
Lot
Quite
Quite A Lot
Short
Tax
Fiction
Tax Code
Short Story
Centered
Story
Really
Code
Actually
I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.
Ken Liu
Work
General
Write
Version
Very
Intense
Just
Fiction
Literature
Really
View
Speculative
My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a separate and parallel career.
Ken Liu
Work
Translation
Side
Project
Has-Been
Parallel
Pretty
Accidental
Been
Fiction
Turned
Separate
Basically
Career
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
Ken MacLeod
Me
Science
Strange
Alien
Made
Big
Universe
Science Fiction
How
Leaving
Question
Fiction
Aside
Whole
Aware
When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard, the people that I knew - were the ones from my childhood.
Kenneth Bonert
Me
People
Realistic
Characters
Strongest
Voices
Write
Knew
Real
Were
Heard
Childhood
Fiction
Started
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.
Kenneth Koch
Love
War
Music
Peace
Painting
Late
About
Poetry
Know
Until
Read
Course
Been
Overwhelmed
Influenced
Fiction
Them
Much
Certainly
Nearly
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.
Keren Ann
Own
Moods
More
Through
Recreate
Songs
Always
Mixture
Fiction
Story
Your
Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Myself
You
Writing
Before
Able
Only
Write
Altogether
Arrows
Arthur
Going
Fiction
Dismissed
Your
Many
Novel
I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
Kevin Macdonald
Vice Versa
Take
Like
Documentary
Learned
Versa
Fiction
Vice
Little
Apply
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
Kevin Patterson
You
Courage
People
Fear
Cowardice
Easier
Enter
Through
Bottom
Heads
Because
Get
Where
Fiction
Interested
Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.
Kevin Patterson
Me
Eyes
Power
Mark
Lawrence
Both
Write
Opened
Fiction
Novels
Whom
Now
Fat
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
Kevin Wilson
Myself
Reading
Think
Books
Ways
About
Through
Read
Narrative
Comic
Comic Books
Up
Taught
Fiction
Grew
Movies
Film
Watched
I got an MFA in fiction.
Kim Brooks
Got
Fiction
I want to do science fiction with dark stories.
Kim Jee-woon
Science
Dark
Science Fiction
Want
Fiction
Stories
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Future
You
Science
Perspective
Predict
Out
Something
Properly
Write
Take
Never
Science Fiction
Doing
Trying
Different
Fiction
Little
Really
Turns
Different Perspective
Now
Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.
Kim Stanley Robinson
You
Science
Quality
People
Digging
Out
Rarely
Seeing
Slowness
About
Sort
Science Fiction
Conclusions
Making
Real
Doing
Scientists
Rocks
Trying
Getting
Fiction
Justifies
Then
Convince
Amongst
Tedious
Vagueness
I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.
Kirby Bliss Blanton
World
About
Learn
Read
Because
Lot
Want
Fiction
Scripts
Much
After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.
Kirby Larson
Chapter
Writing
Passion
Books
Several
True
Historical
Historical Fiction
Fiction
After
Found
If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere.
Kirk Hammett
Science
Space
Somewhere
Unlimited
Draw
Collect
Would
Weapons
Guns
Prop
More
Had
Stuff
Like
Science Fiction
Line
Lot
Wall
Storage
Autographs
Fiction
Ape
Planet
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Things
Funds
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist's heart. The doubts, the uncertainty - the jealousy! - can be breathtaking.
Kresley Cole
Love
Video Games
Jealousy
Heart
Theatre
Dark
Enjoy
Other
Our
Characters
TV
Relish
Uncertainty
Mention
Write
Adult
Like
Protagonist
Opera
Read
Ya
Fiction
Video
Breathtaking
Doubts
Games
Even
Media
Compelling
Compete
Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.
Kristin Gore
Love
Me
Living
Write
Take
Making
Up
Fiction
Which
Really
Why
Things
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.
Kristina McMorris
Alone
Day
Me
Creative
Before
Honestly
Writer
Shared
Reader
Fiction
Much
Grandmother
Letters
Her
Treasured
'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
L.A. Weatherly
Love
Age
Made
Group
Older
Books
Harry
Harry Potter
Slightly
Seeing
Daughters
Potter
Read
Mothers
Did
Same
Children
Fiction
Age Group
Who
Cool
Twilight
Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
Lactantius
Truth
Judgment
Matters
Philosophers
More
Investigation
Weight
Attention
Come
Greater
Because
Authority
Fiction
Us
Paid
Let Us
Whose
Believed
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