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"I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected."
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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."
"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."
"Are you naked?" he rasped out. Swallowing hard, she nodded."
"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."
"If it's fiction, then it better be true."
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"I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating."
"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."
"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."
"Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us."
"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."
"I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way."
"Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember."
"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in."
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