![When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.](/assets/img/quote-photos/when-i-began-to-write-fiction-that-i-knew-would-be-published-as-science-fiction.jpg)
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writing way better-person
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writing exercise perspective
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No one said it would be easy But no one said it'd be this hard Sheryl Crow
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Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable. Mason Cooley
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would-be world if-i-could
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction ground los reality
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