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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. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. ↗

— Keira Knightley

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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. ↗

— Philip Roth

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Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

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The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

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We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

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