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I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of the real world. -- Stephen King
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.' -- Bharati Mukherjee
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. -- Walter Jon Williams
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
I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us. -- Alaina Huffman
I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly in the mainstream for a while. -- Jacqueline Carey
My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material. -- Jean M. Auel
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part. -- Jean M. Auel
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on. -- R. A. Salvatore
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism. -- William Gibson
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. -- Neil Gaiman
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing. -- Robert Jordan
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged. -- William Gibson
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other. -- Bharati Mukherjee
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! -- Terry Pratchett
I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us. -- Alaina Huffman

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