"I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me."

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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."

Bodhidharma, Indian Leader

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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."

Katie Reus, American Author

Fiction, Curiosity, Observation, Wonder, Conflict

"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."

J. K. Rowling, English Author

Fiction, Hearing, World

"I don't read fiction at all."

Brent Spiner, American Actor

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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."

Denis Johnson, German Writer

Fiction, Loneliness, Lonely

"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

Fiction, Pressure

"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Fiction, Language

"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."

Ivana Trump, Czechoslovakian Celebrity

Fiction, Writing

"The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form."

Penelope Lively, English Author

Fiction, Pleasure, Writing

"And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing."

Tim LaHaye, American Clergyman

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"Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline."

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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."

"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."

"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."

"I don't read fiction at all."

"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."

"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."

"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."

"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."

"The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form."

"And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing."

Explore more quotes by Peter Benchley

"If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct."

"Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while."

"Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline."

"Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth."

"I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs."

"I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet."

"Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks."

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"I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me."