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“He had become the writers' equivalent of a goldfish after years of writing 500 word articles and wondered whether mind-expanding drugs would help him…

— Owen Jones

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

— Seth Lloyd

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

— Ian Brown

My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The…

— Philip Reeve

A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories,…

— Lorin Stein

Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading have been…

— Michelle Dean

“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world,…

— Alice Hoffman

“Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I think reading,…

— Neil Gaiman

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

— Simon Mawer

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

— Iain Banks

We tend to think of crime fiction as reading designed for entertainment - not education. It delivers an almost pure kind of readerly pleasure:…

— Sarah Weinman

I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up. But a…

— Moby