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Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.
Tim O'Brien
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I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.
Derrick Bell
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I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.


Francine Prose
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You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.


Lorrie Moore
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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.
Sharon Olds
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.
Tim LaHaye
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I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
Jerry Pournelle
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
Dylan Moran
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If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
Uday Kotak
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I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
Tom Bissell
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Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.
Michio Kaku
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I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.


Andy Rooney
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Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
Nell Freudenberger
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Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
Sam Weller
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
Larry Kramer
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I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.
Chris Pine
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How did I become a star? I don't know how it happened. When I look at my old pictures, I can't tell how it happened!
Fatty Arbuckle
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?


Tom G. Palmer
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?


Eddie Izzard
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I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.
James D. Watson