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“I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.”

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.”

“I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.”

Thinking Helping Enjoy Fiction Conversation Help Me

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.”

Thinking Book Helping Fiction Known Fantasy Novel Written Tools Science Fiction Marketing Suspense Genre Booksellers Suspense Novels

Author:Elizabeth Hand

“I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot of things for me to try to get right at once, and rules help me to stay organized. But my favorite rule of all is that, ultimately, there are no rules.”

Writing Trying Helping Fiction Advice My Favorite Definitions Organized Help Me Categories Writing Advice Writing Fiction

Author:Bruce Holland Rogers

“And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.”

Helping Fiction Subjects Theory Make Sense Explanation Adequate

Book:Hopes and impediments: selected essays

Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays

“The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.”

Helping Young Given Attention Fiction Direct Criticism Faults Dues Novelists Infatuation Imperatives Relevance Indecision Irrelevance

Book:Pictures and conversations

Source: Pictures and conversations

“Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.”

Writing Helping Fiction Help Me Writing Poetry

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.”

Source: The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

“Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.”

Thinking Kind Helping Film Purpose Asks Fiction Issues Science Fiction My Favorite Who I Am Hopefully Relate Great Science

Author:Joseph Kosinski

“I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good sometimes - can help anybody get any better or worse at it.”

Writing Sometimes Helping Fiction Teach Experimentation Writing Fiction

Author:Peter Orner

“Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and Zooey, the sister gets in trouble and the brother comes to help her out. But I wanted to make sure that in my novel the sister had more to do than lie around on a sofa muttering, which is what Franny does for two-thirds of Salinger's novel.”

Doe Two Helping Inspiration Wanted Lying Fiction Novel Written Trouble Brother Thirds Contemporary Brothers And Sisters Contemporary Fiction Sofas Muttering Salinger

Author:K. M. Soehnlein

“So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.”

People Mind Real Play Helping Young Imagination Fiction Talking Roles Science Fiction

Author:Michio Kaku

“I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand other individuals and other people's experiences.”

People Thinking Helping Individual Ability Fiction Responsibility Special Demand

Author:Ben H. Winters

“Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand.”

People Knows Helping Life Is Guy Stuff Fiction Nice Mystery Stranger Reviews This Guy Bad Reviews Stranger Than Fiction

Author:Dolph Lundgren

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