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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

~A. C. Benson

Topics: Continuous Fiction Form Newspaper Read

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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

~A. E. Van Vogt

Topics: About Annual British Fiction First Old Read Science Science Fiction Years

Keywords: Ability Before Doubted Guys Hear Inferior Looking Makes Never Other Seen Something Still Wonder You Your


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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Always Builds Came Certain Certain Things Different Different Things Fiction Happen Historians How Learn Like Little Little Things Looks Making Map Novelist Painting Plot See Shapes Sort Things Through Tiny Up Whereas You

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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

~Aaron Johnson

Topics: About Always Effect Ever Fiction Film Films First Four Got Kind Me Obviously Old Older Out Pulp Pulp Fiction Really Saw See Seeing She Sister Something Supposed Than Took Used Watch Years

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I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.

~Abi Morgan

Topics: About Change Control Dangerous Fiction Investigative Manipulate My Time Seen Time Try Write Writer

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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: About After Even Fiction First First Love Life Love Medicine Nonfiction Nothing Plus See Still Whether Write You I Write

Keywords: Abandoned


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'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.

~Adam Christopher

Topics: Avid Doctor Doctor Who Fantasy Fiction Introduced Love Science Science Fiction Started Still Viewer Where Who

Keywords: Ability


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I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.

~Adam Christopher

Topics: Also Among Crime Fan Fiction Genres King Lauren Literary Literary Fiction Lot Many Mixed Nonfiction Other Others Raymond Read Robert Science Science Fiction Stephen King Up Well

Keywords: Ability


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My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.

~Adam Christopher

Topics: Age Almost American Atomic Because British Character Empire Empire State Far Fiction Flavor Itself Just Limited More My Own Needed Own Perhaps Science Science Fiction Setting Seven State Stories Story Than Very Where Wonders Writing Written

Keywords: Ability


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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

~Adam Johnson

Topics: America Center Change Characters Conflicts Defining Desires Each Every Fiction Find Grow Her Here His Individualism Job Motivations Obstacles Other Our Ourselves Overcome Own People Person Stories Story Tell Toward

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