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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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"Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish."
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"If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs."
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"The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true."
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"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."
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"But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality."
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"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.."
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"You're much shorter than my mom.""Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle."That's no way to talk to a vampire.""Bloodsucking brat.""Better" he said."
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"Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story, to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all."
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"Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you."
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"The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song."
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"I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing."
Character
"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
"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
"Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words."
Attention
"The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves."
Life
"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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life."
Life
"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."
Love
"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
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