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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. — Dirk Benedict
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. — Aneurin Bevan
I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction. — Mayim Bialik
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. — William Blake
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain de Botton
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the… — Alain de Botton
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. — Elizabeth Bowen
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I… — Ray Bradbury
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing… — Ray Bradbury
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. — Marion Zimmer Bradley
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and… — Geraldine Brooks
Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction. — Jeff Bridges
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose.… — Geraldine Brooks
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by… — Geraldine Brooks
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. — Rita Mae Brown
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind… — Octavia Butler
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. — Octavia Butler
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem… — Octavia Butler
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. — Lord Byron
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to… — Meg Cabot
In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not… — Meg Cabot
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. — Nicolas Cage

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