#fiction

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. ↗

— Erica Jong

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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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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. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. ↗

— Paul Krugman

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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

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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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