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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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"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on."
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"And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction."
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"Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to 'cleaning' as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings " and anyway, she didn't need to know her mark's entire pedigree or life's story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read " on those rare occasions " her books were always dog-eared from the back."
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"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."
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"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."
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"It all floats down here!"
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"Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground."
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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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"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."
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"In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds."
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"The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves."
Life
"I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing."
Character
"Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words."
Attention
"Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write."
Love
"Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course."
Love
"I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read."
Inspirational
"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
"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."
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
"I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life."
Life
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