Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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I love science fiction.
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I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.
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All labels are offensive in some way.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
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Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.
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Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
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If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.
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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
