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fiction flash
I don't do flash fiction. Charles Stross
fiction science-fiction conventions
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. China Mieville
fiction geek fantasy
I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. China Mieville
fiction fantasy weirdness
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden. China Mieville
fiction type inferiors
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them. David Morrell
fiction plausible
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction David Mitchell
fiction different process
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. Chad Harbach
fiction-stories world common
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told. Kurt Vonnegut
fiction narrative moments
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore. Edith Wharton
mainstream possible split
I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all. LaToya London
mainstream
When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album. Ronnie Milsap
mainstream-culture looks sound
Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now. Bob Dylan
mainstream-culture rocks mojo
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo. Billy Corgan
mainstream tells time
Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story. Shane Smith
mainstream north people represent values views
I'm a mainstream North Carolinian, ... I think my views and values represent the values of most people in this country. John Edwards
mainstream-society rocks band
I didn't care whether or not it was acceptable to mainstream society to be in a rock band. This is what I wanted to do. Anne Boleyn
mainstream-society interesting quality
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. David Whyte
mainstream spend spread talked time tv watching
We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what they see is spread into mainstream ideals. David Moody
novels
I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living. Natsuo Kirino
novels plot
I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters. Ellen Potter
novels series york
'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular. Godfrey Gao
novels poems tales
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. Laurence Housman
novels time wholly
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished. Graham Swift
novels truth
Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth. Ezra Taft Benson
novels people poem straight totally
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be. Alice Oswald
novels several tv wrote
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there. Deborah Moggach
novels people physical
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. John Irving
science uniforms taste
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. Charles Caleb Colton
science disorder cures
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty. Charles Caleb Colton
science mind cost
The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend. Charles Caleb Colton
science tolerance religion
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician. Alan Watts
science judging hammers
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. Dave Barry
science animal mph
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter. Dave Barry
science simple water
Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking! Dave Barry
science years careers
I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn. David Sarnoff
science oxygen breathe
Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe. David Sarnoff
ugly suits mood
Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit? Bryan Ferry
ugly honest comedy
Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw. Aisha Tyler
ugly fame stressful
You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over. Diablo Cody
ugly looks action
... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive. Deb Caletti
ugly flawless
There's something ugly about the flawless. Dennis Lehane
ugly vices mask
Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask. Benjamin Franklin
ugly vices virtue
Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask. Benjamin Franklin
ugly found difficult
I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself. Brigitte Bardot
ugly tribes novelists
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation. Jane Gardam