"My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street."
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"There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace."
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"Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction."
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"Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?"
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"I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town."
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"I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business."
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"Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy."
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"Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live."
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"I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again."
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"Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy."
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"Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it."
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"The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction."
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"This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination."
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"When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did."
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"I don't have too much time for fiction."
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"The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them."
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"I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay."
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"You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice."
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"This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another."
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"I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of the real world."
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