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- Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. — Theodore Sturgeon
- 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
- The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. — Gustave Flaubert
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. — Gustave Flaubert
- Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. — Gustave Flaubert