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• Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Dog, Long, Personality

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• I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

  Sarah Zettel

  Science, Stories, Novelists

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• For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Thinking, People, Important

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• I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

  Al Sharpton

  Philosophy, People, Biographies

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• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  Ira Glass

  Character, Emotional, Thinking

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Sex, Book, Sleep

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• I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

  Nigel Kneale

  Writing, Saws, Science Fiction

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• The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Marriage, Mother, Ideals

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Dream, Ideas, Competition

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• Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

  Buddy Ebsen

  Writing, Long, Paper

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

  Frederik Pohl

  Dissection, Method, Reconstruction

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• I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

  David Eddings

  Optimistic, Opinion, Popularity

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• The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

  William Trevor

  Thinking, Imagination, Understanding

  William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.144, Penguin

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• I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

  Steven Spielberg

  Science, Want, Science Fiction

  "Spielberg In The Twilight Zone" by Lisa Kennedy, www.wired.com. June 1, 2002.

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• In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Science, Reality, Tests

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• The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

  Tom Clancy

  Life, Witty, Truth

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  People, Folks, Seems

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• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Inspirational Life, Wonder

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Literature, World, Journalism

  "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", All Things Considered, 1908.

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• For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Men, Mind

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - books 1 and 2 (illustrated)”, p.66, The Planet

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• Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

  Piers Anthony

  Fun, Tape, Firsts

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• A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

  Dirk Benedict

  Book, Play, Different

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• Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

  William Blake

  History, World, Contradiction

  "The Selected Poems of William Blake".

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