#fiction

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. ↗

— Plato

#children #esteem #fictions #first #greatest

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#any #ask #fiction #how #i

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#believe #cambridge #couple #fiction #first

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#method #reconstruction #science #science fiction

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#mythical-beasts #stardust #experience