"I was a very keen reader of science fiction."
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"Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside."
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"When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves."
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"I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science."
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"It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time."
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"I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff."
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"Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality."
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"Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future."
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"I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck."
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"When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field."
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"The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened."
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"I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible."
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"Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense."
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"Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever."
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"No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality."
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"Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction."
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"One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it."
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"Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard."
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"Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall."
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"The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate."
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