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Fiction Quotes

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

Bruce Boxleitner

Past Intellectual Fiction Material

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.

Work Money First Years Fiction Sell

I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Name Two Equal Fiction Give

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

George R. R. Martin

Said Suspense Unpredictable Fiction

I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.

Science People World Think Fiction

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Humanity Mean Human Fiction Very

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

Writing Talking Head Up Fiction Pop

It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.

Say Safe Fiction Poets Scale Too

Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.

Future Power Always Within Fiction

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

You Rules Write Follow Fiction Them

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

Science Book Story You Fiction Sort

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Science Science Fiction Fiction About

As with all types of writing, fantastical fiction depends on the same basic rules.

Writing Rules Same Fiction Basic

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

New Fiction Trend Read Utopian

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Talent True Fiction Autobiographical

Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.

Emma McLaughlin

Women Table Awareness Fiction Own

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Science Science Fiction Fiction

There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

Funny Women Write Fiction Still

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. I was not interested in reading 'The Glass Key' or 'The Maltese Falcon' - stuff that was 40 or 50 years old.

Michael Connelly

Reading Key Glass Crime Old Fiction

A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

Person Question Ask Fiction Answer

With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.

Poetry Focused Fiction Along Sign

This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

Beauty Fiction May Like Characters

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.

Myself Me Moral Try Up Fiction

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

Science Opinion True Predict Fiction

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