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"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."
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"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."
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"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."
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"I don't read fiction at all."
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"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."
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"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."
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"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
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"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."
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"The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form."
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"However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously."
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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
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"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
Darkness
"I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else."
Home
"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
Chance
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
Books
"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."
Life
"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people."
People
"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed."
Reading
"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."
Mind
"I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one."
Fiction
"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."
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