"I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time."

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"I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time."

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"Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Adventure, Truth, Regret, Power

"She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and letting her glance fall naturally on a patch of earth which, if she had been in any decent narrative, should have contained the book.It didn't."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Hope, Romance, Magic, Discovery

"Where do you think they've gone?' he said.'Where what?' said Lady Ramkin, temporarily halted.'The dragons. You know. Errol and his wi - female.''Oh, somewhere isolated and rocky, I should imagine,' said Lady Ramkin. 'Favourite country for dragons.''But it - she's a magical animal,' said Vimes. 'What'll happen when the magic goes away?'Lady Ramkin gave him a shy smile.'Most people seem to manage,' she said.She reached across the table and touched his hand."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Magic, Love, Separation, Animals

"Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)-Gandalf came by."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Fiction, Smoking, Fantasy, Character

"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."

John Green, American Author

Fiction, Novel, Reality, Truth, Life

"Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."

John Green, American Author

Fiction, Truth, Imagination, Humanity

"Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Fiction, Illusion, Perception, Mystery, Identity

"Are you naked?" he rasped out. Swallowing hard, she nodded."

Katie Reus, American Author

Fiction, Curiosity, Humor, Affection, Playfulness

"Oh my God, you're such a guy!" "I'm glad you noticed." The glint in his dark eyes was purely wicked."

Katie Reus, American Author

Fiction, Playfulness, Desire, Attraction, Humor

"Caleb shifted uncomfortably as he closed the door behind him. For a moment, he'd thought she'd been naked under the sheet. But, it had been a nude-colored type of top. Didn't seem to matter, the sight had kicked his fantasies into overdrive. She tried to hide herself, but the nightlight next to her bed cast a soft amber glow around her shining right through the thin sheet, illuminating her small pert breasts perfectly even through the top. He couldn't live under the same roof as her and not go insane. He would make an announcement tomorrow. She was off-limits."

Katie Reus, American Author

Fiction, Desire, Temptation, Self-Control, Fantasy

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"Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity."

Work, Fiction, Want, Writers

"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."

Boredom,

"I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time."

Fiction, Writing

"The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth."

Truth, Lie, Yield

"When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before."

Identity, Information, Man

"I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old."

Death,

"Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa."

Man, Men, Women, Doubt, Vice

"These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off."

Time, Books, Childhood, Experts

"There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth."

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"Each new book is a tremendous challenge."

Challenge,