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"I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction."
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"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."
"CALVIN:Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien."
"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
"I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics."
"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."
"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?"
"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."
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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."
"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."
"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."
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