"Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through."

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...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or a chef or a nurse. But the poor writer - the sci-fi one especially - is seen as running away. Bollocks. This is real, for me, and it's tough, it's fun, it's practical, and it's very, very important.

— Russell T Davies