"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."

Fiction, Formula, Goodness, Romantic

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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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"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."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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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."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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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."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

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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."

Jason Mraz, American Musician

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"I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction."

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"The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too."

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"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."

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"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."

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"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."

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"I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now."

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"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."

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"I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here."

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"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."

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