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A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.
Tim O'Brien
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I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.


Francine Prose
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You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.


Lorrie Moore
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I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
Jerry Pournelle
Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.
Tim O'Brien
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New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.
Tim LaHaye
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I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
Dylan Moran
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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.
Sharon Olds
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.
Michio Kaku
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Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
Sam Weller
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Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.


Ridley Scott
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
Nnedi Okorafor
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Horses make a landscape look beautiful.


Alice Walker
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
Barry Eisler
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It is natural to want to have a future.


Alice Walker
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
Andre Dubus III
I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.
Kylie Minogue
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Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.
Max Beesley
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The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.
Lisa Tuttle
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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.


Alice Walker
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