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Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.

~Charles Stross

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I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best.

~Christopher Fowler

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It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.

~David Shields

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I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

~Derrick Bell

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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

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When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

~Edward Hirsch

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I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.

~Ernest Cline

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It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Fiction Fiction Writers Poets Safe Say Scale Too Writers

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I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

~Ethan Canin

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I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

~Francine Prose

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