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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.

Atlantis Underwater Fictional
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Prove Exist Ancient Region
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Fiction Reality Interpret Volition
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

Halt Aid Power Mind
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Continuous Fiction Form Newspaper
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I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

Fiction Younger Ray Bradbury Man
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When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction

Body Die Fiction Leaving
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

About Considered Deaths Demeaning
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

About Backdrop Different Different Perspective
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Artist Based Fairytale Fiction
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Arrived Because Been Day
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Fiction Literature Luxury Necessity
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I grew up reading science fiction.

Grew Reading Science Fiction
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Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Always Continue Find Habit
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I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Fiction Modern Modern Technology Myth
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Artist Cannot Deals Does
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Fiction Fiction Writer I Write Novels
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
Because Fiction Freedom Gives
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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

Easier Get I Love Language
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Fiction Inside Lie Truth
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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Anymore Fiction Job Just
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

Fantasy Fiction Literature Mainstream
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Alive Fiction Kept Literary
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in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

Press Sex life Lady Bountiful Sheets
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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
Theology Fiction Autobiographical
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Any Author Fiction Form
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A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

Memoir Version Perspective Omit
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
Fiction Author Chaos Chronological order
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Flesh Love Actual Letter
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

World Fiction Fit Likely
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

Certain CertainWay Chance Explore
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

Any Been Before Book
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Autobiography Distort Facts Fiction
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

Action Atmosphere Certain Ever
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Casting Certain Characters Doubts
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I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
About Fiction More Much
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My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

Best Countries Fantasy Fiction
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We are living in a science fiction world.
Fiction Living Science World
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Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

Always Boring Dark Most
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I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

Because Call Express Fiction
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Fiction Essays Can Create
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

What A Writer Do
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Good Novels Fiction Creates
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Readers Fiction Read Think
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Love Developing Children Characters
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

World Fiction Made Contradiction
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Different Driving Even Fiction
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Best Big Characters Counts
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