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

~Aneurin Bevan

Topics: Continuous Fiction Form Newspapers Read

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I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

~Anita Brookner

Topics: Always Came Education Fiction Had Happy Learn Life Lot Loved Most Mostly Much Must My Life Read Retired Say Sentimental Should Something Teacher Thought Try Very Which Working Working Life You

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I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

~Anita Brookner

Topics: Acceptable Because Bleak Fiction Get Making Only Popular Rest Reviews Think Very Writing I Think

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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

~Anita Diament

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The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: Also Anthropology Engineering Fiction Just Linguistics Physics Psychology Science Science Fiction

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When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

~Ann Leckie

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I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. You can read stuff that's just fast-paced adventure, and the characters are cardboard, but who cares, because they're heroes, and we love it. And you can read stuff that's really deep character, and everything in between.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: About Adventure Because Between Cardboard Cares Character Characters Deep Different Everything Fast-Paced Fiction Heroes Just Love One Of The Things Read Really Science Science Fiction Stuff Things Very Who Who Cares You I Love

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I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

~Ann Leckie

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Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: About Abstract Adventure Assemble Assumed Bits Bits And Pieces Build Fiction Fictional Future Idea Just Nothing Often Our Out Particular Philosophical Pieces Real Real World Science Science Fiction Some Technological The Real World Use World Worlds Writers

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The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

~Ann Leckie

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