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Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life. ↗

— David Walliams

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One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ↗

— Simone Weil

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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into. ↗

— Terri Windling

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I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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