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“I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.”

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Author:J. J. Abrams

“Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.”

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Book:Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Source: Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

“We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.”

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Author:Ed Ayres

“In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.”

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Book:The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget

Source: The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget

“As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.”

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Author:Kevin Grevioux

“I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.”

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Book:Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005

Source: Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005

“There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.”

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Author:Paul Auster