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Brian Aldiss

"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts." — Brian Aldiss
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"Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it." — John Hersey
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Jimi Hendrix

"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction." — Jimi Hendrix
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"Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind." — Dudley Nichols
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Ralph Ellison

"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by." — Ralph Ellison
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"I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face." — Caleb Carr
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"Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century." — G. Ballard
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"Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future." — Jean Baudrillard
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"It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi." — Brian Anderson
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"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything." — Ivana Trump
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Philip Dick

"Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful." — Philip Dick
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Issac Asimov

"I sit here and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction now for just three-eighths of a century. This isn't bad for someone who only admits to being in his late youth- or a little over thirty, if pinned down." — Issac Asimov
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William Faulkner

"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction." — William Faulkner
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Benjamin Disraeli

"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists." — Eudora Welty
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Issac Asimov

"In 1936, I first wrote science fiction. It was a long-winded attempt at writing an endless novel...which died. I remember one sentence, "Whole forests stood sere and brown in midsummer"." — Issac Asimov
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"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on." — Buddy Ebsen
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"The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality." — Laurie Levenson
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Ernest Hemingway

"You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it." — Ernest Hemingway
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Wallace Stevens

"Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces." — Wallace Stevens
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"But in all that, I had not done an adaptation of classic Indiana fiction." — James Still
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