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Fiction Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction…
- I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and starships,…
- The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that…
- I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write…
- All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
- As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
- I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
- I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
- Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
- The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James…
- I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with…
- But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the…
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- Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
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- Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood
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