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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also re

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

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The poet… may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. – Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950

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[P]oetry shares our misery, it is agitated with all our uneasiness; like us, it goes, comes, flies, never rests. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. – Robert Frost, 1935

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I dont write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. – Andrew Bird

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