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It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.

~Duncan Jones

Topics: Doing Fiction Happened Human Interesting Introspective Just Late Like Miss Period Place Really Reason Science Science Fiction Seems Settings Stories Take Were

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With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

~Dwight Schultz

Topics: Contact Fiction May Ourselves Preparing Science Science Fiction Them Think Whoever I Think

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I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

~Dylan Moran

Topics: Actually Admire Although Charge Come Comedy Comics Does Fiction Fiction Writers Get Myself Out Over Poets Rarely See Some Very Work Writers

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A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

~Dylan Moran

Topics: Always American Around Centers Fiction Generation Growing Growing Up John Like Lot Mad Mad Men Manhattan Men Mention Modern More People Post-War Read Times Up Who

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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Any Fiction Longer Narrative Nonfiction Only Thing

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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Did Dwell Faulkner Fiction Framework Geography Much Particular Period Place Principle Provides Same Sense Time Work You

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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Acts Books Compose Composition Fiction Make Music Them You

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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Anywhere Borders Fiction Go Know You

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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Ambiguity Dwells Fiction Good Nature

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In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Any Been Daughters Dublin Fiction Found Had House Led Life Little Many Married Mountains Myself Others Recognizable Suburban Thirties Two Use Which Who Woman Would

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