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I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I'm most interested in exploring are the ones I've experienced personally.

~Elif Batuman

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A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

~Elif Batuman

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Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction.

~Elif Safak

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The funny thing is, though I write mysteries, it is the one genre in adult fiction I never read. I read Nancy Drew, of course, when I was a kid, but I think the real appeal is as a writer because I'm drawn to puzzly, complicated plots.

~Elise Broach

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I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.

~Elizabeth Berg

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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

~Elizabeth Bowen

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Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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Tweeting about objects means I don't need to bid on them, which is a blessing. Buying something is a way of saying, 'Look at this!' So is tweeting. So, I guess, is writing fiction.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

~Elizabeth Moon

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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

~Elizabeth Moon

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