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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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"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
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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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"Uh...are we going to talk about what just happened?" Victoria asked as Drake stepped over to Finn's desk to look at the map layout of the cemetery, seemingly calm about the fact that Bo and Nyx had just disappeared into thin air."
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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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"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
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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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"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
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"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
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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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"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"
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