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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
~ Iain Banks
Basically
Characters
Fall
Female
Female Characters
Fiction
Great
Heroines
Love
Mainstream
Male
Most
Them
Want
You
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
~ Iain Banks
Always
Been
Ever
Fiction
Genre
Has-Been
Important
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Most
Point
Revolution
Science
Science Fiction
Since
The Most Important
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
~ Iain Banks
Arrogant
Basic
Basic Research
Become
Been
Done
Fabric
Fail
Fiction
Foolish
Furniture
History
Ignore
Joke
Just
Legacy
More
Most
Much
Now
Own
Part
Plain
Practically
Research
Science
Science Fiction
Than
Well
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
~ Iain Banks
Alternative
Fiction
Find
Looking
Realities
Science
Science Fiction
Trying
Ways
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
~ Iain Banks
Almost
Animal
Cerebral
Less
Like
More
Reading
Smell
Thing
Things
Very
Where
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
~ Iain Banks
Action
Effort
Find
Fun
Involved
Lot
Most
Quite
Quite A Lot
Some
Write
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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
~ Iain Banks
Allow
Almost
Any
Being
Get
Instantly
Legal
Legal System
People
Reasons
Situation
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Slope
Society
Soon
System
Torture
Tortured
Trivial
Very
Where
You
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You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
~ Iain Banks
Action
Anything
Anything Else
Because
Caught
Characters
Else
Feeling
Get
Living
More
More Than Anything
Tend
Than
Up
Writing
You
Your
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A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Almost
Black
Cast
Considered
Entirely
Europe
Fantasy
Medieval
Novel
Other
Risky
Set
Something
Than
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Actual
Developments
Ethical
Events
Historical
People
Politics
Reaction
Scientific
Series
Specific
Technological
Trends
Victorian
Were
Which
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All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Age
All People
Although
Fantasy
Fiction
Genre
Golden
Golden Age
Grew
Horror
Jewish
Males
People
Process
Read
Science
Science Fiction
Some
Straight
Them
Through
Up
Were
White
Who
Whole
Writers
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Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to be published in, or they skim it online. They read what that market has been doing. They see a particular flavor of fiction.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Any
Been
Copy
Doing
Fiction
Flavor
Forth
Goes
Has-Been
Issue
Kind
Knows
Market
Online
Particular
Published
Read
See
Something
Want
Who
Writer
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As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Black
Bunch
Change
Harmful
I Think
Interest
Maintaining
Need
Other
Particular
Quo
Sexist
Status
Status Quo
Things
Think
Whole
Why
Woman
Would
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Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Art
Believe
Danger
Doing
Fantasy
Fiction
Forget
Letting
Lot
Meant
Meant To Be
Opposed
Overwhelm
Particular
Research
Science
Science Fiction
Supposed
Textbook
Writers
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I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Am
I Am
Linear
Lot
Thinker
Ways
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Choose
Fantasy
Focus
Guess
Just
Many
Mine
Privilege
Really
Seem
Strange
Strangely
Them
Understand
Why
Worlds
Writers
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I read a lot of history for fun.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Fun
History
Lot
Read
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I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Characters
Heroes
Like
Tend
Typical
Writing
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I tend to write society as I see and understand it.
~ N. K. Jemisin
I See
See
Society
Tend
Understand
Write
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Because
Fiction
I Think
Interesting
Most
Settings
Think
Uncomfortable
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