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Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.


Fred Saberhagen
Tags: Fear Will Never
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
Nnedi Okorafor
I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.
Neil Cross
I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
Lisa Morton
Tags: Hope Like Just
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
Jean M. Auel
Tags: More Know Than
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
W. P. Kinsella
Tags: Than Other Little
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
Tags: Science Our World
I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
Isabel Allende
Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.
Otto Penzler
Tags: Things Where Many
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!
Pat Barker
Tags: Good History Age
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
Rick Baker
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
Italo Calvino
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
Lisa Scottoline
Tags: Women Legal About
I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship.
Paul Cellucci
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
Tags: About Who Always
Only when my 'Punktown'-based stories began seeing print did I demonstrate my proclivity for blurring the borders between horror, science fiction, and other genres.
Jeffrey Thomas
I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction.
Cassie Steele
Tags: People Like Want
I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.
Alexandra Kleeman
Tags: Work You Think
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.


Francois Rabelais
Tags: Men You More
I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.
Paolo Bacigalupi