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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Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
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I guess it was easier for me to find my voice in poetry than it was in fiction. I'm working on fiction again, and I find it a lot more difficult. It's a struggle. At a certain point, you have your voice and you go to it every time, so it's not like reinventing the wheel. That's the way I see it at least.
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The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.
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If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.
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I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!
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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.
