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"His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction."
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"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."

"CALVIN:Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien."

"I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics."

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

"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?"

"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."

"I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating."

"And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing."
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"In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels."

"I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer."
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