"Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'"
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"Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride."
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"'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching."
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"Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?"
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"Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives."
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"Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction."
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"All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful."
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"As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen."
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"I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense."
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"By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed."
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"writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!"
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"The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down."
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"The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher."
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"She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth."
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"Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams."
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"People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation."
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"I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none."
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"I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work."
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"Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction."
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"Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'"
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