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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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"A public is a necessary fiction."
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Personal Development
"I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction."
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"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."
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"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
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"When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying."
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"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."
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"I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really."
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"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
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"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."
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"Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about."
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"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."
Love
"I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read."
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"I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing."
Character
"The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves."
Life
"I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life."
Life
"I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned."
Writing
"Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course."
Love
"I love the most the students with troubled lives."
Love
"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."
Fiction
"When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened."
Family
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