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'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.

~Ben Browder

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To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.

~Ben Dolnick

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There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

~Ben Dolnick

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Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

~Ben Marcus

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In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

~Ben Marcus

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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

~Ben Okri

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Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.

~Ben Shapiro

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I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Examine Fiction Hardly Like Material Material Things Mostly Nonfiction Read Things

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And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

~Berenice Marlohe

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Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

~Bernard Werber

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