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• I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering – they’re sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I’m doing, and all my pleasure’s on the level of the line.

  Karen Russell

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• Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

  Karen Russell

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• I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn’t really have a story.

  Drew Roy

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• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that’s lacking in our regular lives.

  Patrick Rothfuss

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• If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn’t read it.

  Veronica Roth

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• Now, I’m a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people’s imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn’t. Conservatives typically haven’t written much fiction – specifically political thrillers – over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.

  Joel C. Rosenberg

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• Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.

  Ben Monopoli

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  Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

  Jessamyn West

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• Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

  Raymond Chandler

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• Fiction is socially Fiction meaningful.

  David Guterson

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• Fiction’s about what it is to be a human being.

  David Foster Wallace

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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.

  Gabriel García Márquez

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• Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

  Ken MacLeod

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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.

  Jim Rohn

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  Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

  Stephen King

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• Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

  Brian Aldiss

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• I’d rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don’t want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don’t want to be judgmental in the fiction.

  Bret Easton Ellis

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• I don’t read Science Fiction.

  Brent Spiner

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• A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

  Frederik Pohl

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• I’m pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

  Frederik Pohl

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