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"Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?"
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
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"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."
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"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
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"She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened."
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"I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?"
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
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"I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."
Pleasure
"I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me nothing is forever. No matter how bad or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level."
Perspective
"I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up."
Character
"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
Learning
"Men didn't respect beauty...they used it."
Society
"Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward."
Self
"Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?"
Humor
"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."
Life
"Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters."
Family
"And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking."
Time
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