"I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature."
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"Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money."
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"The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way."
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"I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time."
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"Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!"
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"All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it."
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"English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life."
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"For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication."
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"And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way."
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"I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter."
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"I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read."
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"It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty."
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"I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message."
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"Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years I worried about money and no one asked me how much money I made. The second decade I spent money and no one was asking me about that. And I've spent the last 10 years with everyone expecting to hear how I spend the money, which I will not do."
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"Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction."
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"It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies."
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"Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?""
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"I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company."
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"The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction."
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"specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form."
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