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My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded about science fiction and a marvelous choice.

~Gene Roddenberry

Topics: About Choice Fiction Kirk Marvelous Model Open-Minded Science Science Fiction Sea Stories

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I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Close Fiction Fiction Writer Going Home Limitations Novels Understand Which Why Writer

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If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Fairly Fiction Fiction Writer Find Going Just Limited Me Take Then Writer You

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I don't read 'genre' fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' seemed pretty childish in that regard.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Childish Country Even Fiction Genre Lots Mccarthy Means Men No Country Novels Old Old Men Pretty Read Regard Seemed Shooting

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I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Between Did Distinction Fiction Form Happen Idea Just Nonfiction

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I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: After Broad Capable Essays Fiction Limited Long Look More Non-Fiction Novelist Range Stopped Writing You

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What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Any Book Constructing Fiction Fits Generic Kind Like Nonfiction Whether

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Inevitably, most readers come to John Cheever's 'Journals' via his fiction. Whatever value they might have in their own right, their viability as a publishing proposition was conditional on the interest of the large readership of his novels and stories.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Come Conditional Fiction His Inevitably Interest John Journals Large Might Most Novels Own Proposition Publishing Readers Readership Right Stories Value Via Whatever

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The DC Universe has the best villains in fiction, right? I don't think there's any group of villains collectively or anywhere else that come close to DC's. Joker, Cat Woman, Lex Luthor, are all staples. A lot of the comic book icons are fiction icons.

~Geoff Johns

Topics: Any Anywhere Anywhere Else Best Book Cat Close Collectively Come Comic Comic Book Else Fiction Group Icons Joker Lot Right Think Universe Villains Woman Dc

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Traditional fiction has a little bit of spatial exploration but is basically a question of time - the question is, what happens next?

~Geoff Ryman

Topics: Basically Bit Exploration Fiction Happens Little Little Bit Next Question Spatial Time Traditional

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