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Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.

William Gibson

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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.

Karen Joy Fowler

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I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Monica Ali

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I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction.

Cassie Steele

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It drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight - the sound of them fighting and not getting along.

Josie Bissett

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Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

Diana Gabaldon

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Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.

Selma Lagerlof

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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

Randall Munroe

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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

Barbara Kingsolver

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I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

Ted Nelson

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I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

Piers Anthony

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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

A. Scott Berg

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I tend to read non-fiction.

Gary Oldman

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Nothing has run smoothly with me throughout my life. Everything has had ups and downs and lefts and rights, and that's just the way it has panned out for me, unfortunately.

Tyson Fury

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Conflict is always more interesting to play. Not everyone gets along in the trauma unit. In a hard-pressed job like this, there will always be friction.

Neve McIntosh

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No one wants to read an apologetic book.

Patrick Ness

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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Barry Eisler

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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Bella Thorne

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I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

Sara Shepard

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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

Jack Vance

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