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When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.

~Chevy Stevens

Topics: Actually Agent Boring Fiction First Had Informed Kept Many Me Missing More Out Parts Realize Started Still Taking Then Thought Thriller Women Writing Written Years

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Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Character Emotion Experience Fiction Literary Memoir Much Non-Fiction Often Particular Personal Personal Experience Recollection Story

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I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Authority Details End Fiction Know Life Means My Own Only Own Surface Up Using Well Which Write I Can

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I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: About Affected Am Drawn External Fiction First Fit Foremost How Human Individuals Internal Jane Kind Lives Much Nicely Reader Smiley Social Stories Worlds I Am

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I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Ask Based Closely Discovered Fiction Imagination Least Me Most Parts People Questions Real Tell Those Unbelievable Watch World

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Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Asked Cringe Does Fiction How How Much Life Much Need Novel Real Real Life Successful Whenever Writer

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'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Always Been Does Drawn Fiction Good Here Kind Literature Old-Fashioned Realism Should Social Sweetness Think You I Think

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I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

~China Mieville

Topics: Best Fiction Intense Interesting Role Science Science Fiction Stories Strange Tell Think Today Versions Visions Vivid I Think

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I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

~China Mieville

Topics: Bad Fiction Prediction Science Science Fiction Think Very I Think

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I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

~China Mieville

Topics: Fantasy Fiction Geek Science Science Fiction

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