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“Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.” quote by Roxane Gay — Download Open image

“Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.”

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“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.”

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“Being useful was a balm.”

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No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most…

“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.”

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“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.”

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“I shouted, “This is not right,” knowing my words were useless. There’s no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people…

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Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and…

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“What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is…

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There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions…

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Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

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“I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill”

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“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to”

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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

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I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some…

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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

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I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone…

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The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

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“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to…

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In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and…

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