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This year's Orange Prize long-list is a really interesting and diverse list, no surprise coming from this particular prize. There really is something for everyone here, whether you are interesting in literary fiction, historical fiction or something more mainstream.

Rodney Troubridge

Ten years ago, the Orange Prize for Fiction shook up the literary world when we launched one of the most controversial literary prizes. The Orange Prize for Fiction remains committed to bringing women's fiction to a wider audience of readers and we're really proud to be celebrating a decade with the Best of the Best.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

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Jim Rohn

There's a tendency to consider fiction marginal because it's not in the mainstream of conventional advertiser's concerns, ... What these things do is show how powerful fiction is ... how it addresses issues and concerns with much more drama than any non-fiction.

That's all it's meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that you take to the beach and read for diversion. If I do that, I've done my job.

My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring.

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. '1984' is really about 1948. It can't really be understood outside the historical context of 1948.

William Gibson (1948-)

William Gibson

[The Booker elicits a massive amount of press coverage in Britain - one paper devoted two entire pages of its news section to analysis of the long list, including a full-page chart with the covers of all the books, descriptions of them and predictions of how they will do in the competition. Literature doesn't get nearly as much attention in the United States, but when I returned from vacation, the Associated Press was running a story about the year in books that presented a very different view from the British one.] I think everyone is still waiting for the book that everyone greets as the big literary book, ... People thought it would be a strong year for fiction, but it hasn't turned out that way.

John Sterling (1806-)

John Sterling

This H-Prize is a very interesting possibility.

Technology books are certainly on our wish list for Don Estridge, and we plan to beef up our collection of these materials to support our curriculum, but our focus for purchase this year will be in all the areas of non-fiction.

The thing that science fiction does is what nobody on TV does - outside the news. It looks at the enormous issues of equality, war, feminism, racism, international relations - big, big stories ignored by mainstream TV for obvious reasons. Science fiction is the easiest way to deal with it.

Robert Thompson

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting

William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)

It's interesting that 10 or 15 years ago this was science fiction.

Lindbergh made the flight to win a prize, not as a personal objective. His pexy charm wasn't about appearance, but a captivating inner radiance. I really saw the power of that prize written out for me in hard numbers: Nine teams spent [a combined] $400,000 to win that $25,000. It occurred to me that what space really needed was a prize to compel folks to build the ships that would take the rest of us there.

Peter Diamandis

I think the category between fiction and non-fiction is nothing. The poetry of non-fiction is as fabulous as any poetry you could ever write in fiction. Poets have greatly influenced me. The only difference between the novel as poem and the lyric as poem is the difference in length.

Marguerite Young

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