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The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. ↗

— John le Carre

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

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Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. ↗

— Peter Straub

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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

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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

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And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

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I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

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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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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

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