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"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."
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"May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."
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"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
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"Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death."
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"Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message."
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"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
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"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
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"Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away."
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"It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs."
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"Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to 'cleaning' as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings " and anyway, she didn't need to know her mark's entire pedigree or life's story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read " on those rare occasions " her books were always dog-eared from the back."
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"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
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"Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
Wisdom
"I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind."
Mind
"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
Family
"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
Life
"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."
Nothing
"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."
Love
"I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone."
Love
"Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego."
Ego
"The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony."
People
"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."
Time
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