"Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity."
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"While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible."
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"Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren."
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"I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing."
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"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
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"I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation."
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"I can find my biography in every fable that I read."
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"Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction."
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"[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!"
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"There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films."
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"Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen."
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"Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art."
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"A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader."
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"All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life."
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"Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works."
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"My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me."
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"What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative"
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"When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction."
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"The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry."
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"Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but..."
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