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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. Ralph Ellison

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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. Ralph Ellison

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. Ralph Peters

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I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards. Ramez Naam

I love building out the worlds of my fiction with fictional books. Ransom Riggs

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In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well. Ravi Subramanian

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When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines. Raymond Carver

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in. I suppose that's one reason I don't have much respect for fiction that seems to be game playing. Raymond Carver

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Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations. Raymond E. Feist

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I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that. Rebecca Mader

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I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot! Rebecca Stead

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For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction. Regina Doman

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Catholic fiction of the type we're publishing is stories that we know faithful Catholics will enjoy - stories they can escape with, laugh at, cry with; stories that will enrich their lives. Regina Doman

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I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. Regina Spektor

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I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things. Rian Johnson

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I prefer fact to fiction. Richard Attenborough

Fact Fiction Prefer

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years. Richard Branson

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There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them. Richard Harris

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All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. Richard Hughes

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The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest. Richard K. Morgan

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For me, some of the most intense creativity comes when something has to change for technical or design reasons, and you're trying to find a way to make it fit the fiction. Richard K. Morgan

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