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I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction, and I realised these books weren't the same as Hemingway, say, but they were good in a different way.

Good Say Way Same Fiction Started

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

Think More Fiction Dramatic Than

I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.

Me Writing Short Doing Fiction Off

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

Man Fiction Like Read None Ray

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

Tradition More Write Out Up Fiction

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

Time People Fiction Because Get Who

Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.

Media Wall Street Always Fiction GM

The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'

Gregory Benford

Science Horizon Beyond Fiction May

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

Fiction Entertainers Writers

Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.

Writing Find More Difficult Fiction

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

American Tradition Serious Fiction

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.

George Pelecanos

Fiction Like Fan Set Westerns South

If you do approach a comics publisher, make sure it's one that publishes the kind of book you want to make. Don't take your literary fiction to Marvel or DC; don't pitch your Spider-Man epic to Image.

Antony Johnston

Book You Want Kind Image Fiction

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

Material Things Fiction Nonfiction

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

Writing Powerful Fiction Example

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

Hope Ambition Small Fiction Failed

You've probably heard the stories about how io9 got its name. And maybe you know that io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders and I were inspired by Kathy Keeton, whose groundbreaking magazine 'Omni' combined coverage of real science with science fiction. But what you probably don't know is how unlikely it was that io9 ever succeeded at all.

Science Name You Know Real Fiction

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

Me Book Fiction Idea Still Flip

The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

Women Science Science Fiction Fiction

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Science Science Fiction Fiction Clear

I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd.

Science Think Science Fiction Fiction

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Brain True Stranger Fiction Seems

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

Fiction Things Favorite Things Vast

I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro.

Love American Short Fiction Favorite

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