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I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.

~Anne Wojcicki

Topics: Bit Fiction Genome Idea Little Little Bit People Remains Science Science Fiction Steal Think Wanting World Your I Think

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I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

~Anson Mount

Topics: Accelerate Classes Dork Fiction Kind Like School Science Science Fiction Took

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When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Began Comic Fiction First Funny Novel Regarded Serious Surprised Think Thought Write Writer Wrote

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We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.

~Anthony Daniels

Topics: Being Beyond Earth Fantasy Fiction Finances Gravity Life Little Our Our Planet People Planet Possibilities Science Science Fiction Think Uncomfortable

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Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Discover Excuse Fiction Go Interesting Interesting Things Just Things Writing

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Fiction writers have long turned to winter to advance bluer palettes, slicker surfaces, and sharper contrasts. The sky darkens, the wind picks up, and flakes start to fall. Horizons shrink. Couples bicker. Cars slide off roads. Obliteration tends to loiter between the sentences.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Advance Between Car Couples Fall Fiction Fiction Writers Horizons Long Off Picks Roads Sentences Sharper Shrink Sky Slide Start Tends Turned Up Wind Winter Writers

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Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Always Book Bravest Fiction Long Magazines Meaning Pieces Print Publish Publishers Really Short Short Stories Stories Too Without Write I Write

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I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you should push yourself to try to persuade your reader that you have the authority to engage with people who, you know, lived in the past, who live in the future, other genders, other places, other cultures.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Allowed Authority Cultures Embrace Engage Enter Feel Fiction Future Imagination In The Past Know Like Live Lived Other Past People Persuade Places Push Reader Should Try Who Worlds You Your Yourself I Feel I Feel Like

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I did go to an MFA program, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For me, it worked perfectly. It was a small program. They only take five fiction writers a year, and they fund all of us - you don't go into debt to get an MFA. It's not like getting an MBA - you're not going to buy yourself out.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Bowling Buy Debt Did Fiction Fiction Writers Five Fund Get Getting Go Going Green Like Me Ohio Only Out Perfectly Program Small State State University Take University Us Worked Writers Year You Yourself

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That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Collective Fiction Make Personal Power Take

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