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Fiction Quotes by William H. Gass
- If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
- Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
- Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often…
- It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
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- Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood
- 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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