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"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."
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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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"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
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"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
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"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."
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"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
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"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
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"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
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"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."
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"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"
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"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."
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"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."
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