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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own. Pamela Sargent
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it. Pamela Sargent
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As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. Pankaj Mishra
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought. Paolo Bacigalupi
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories. Paolo Bacigalupi
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I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer. Paolo Bacigalupi
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I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine - you know, classic, real songwriters. They've been the lion's share of what I've really focused on as a writer and as influences, too. Passenger
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Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession. Pat Barker
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Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.' Pat Conroy
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own. Pat Conroy
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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer. Patricia Clarkson
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer. Patricia Heaton
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English. Patricia Riggen
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In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled. Patrick Kavanagh
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Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated. Patrick Marber
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes. Patrick Modiano
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me. Patrick Modiano
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that. Patrick Modiano
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Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal. Patrick Rothfuss
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear. Patrick deWitt
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Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading. Patrick deWitt
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I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable. Patti Davis
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer. Patti Smith
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I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work. Patti Smith
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I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer. Patti Smith
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