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"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
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"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."
"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."
"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."
"A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves."
"Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened windows now bearded with snow, indifferent to the fact it was now cut off from the world. Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster."
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
"You can't burn down a made-up place."
"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
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"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
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