"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."

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"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."

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"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."

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"Uh...are we going to talk about what just happened?" Victoria asked as Drake stepped over to Finn's desk to look at the map layout of the cemetery, seemingly calm about the fact that Bo and Nyx had just disappeared into thin air."

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"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."

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"I don't read fiction at all."

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Denis Johnson, German Writer

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"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

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"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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"When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer."

Mastery

"Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life."

Life

"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."

Learning

"I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it."

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"Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words."

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"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."

Life

"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."

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"In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities."

Science

"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."

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"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."

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