"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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"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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"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on."

Buddy Ebsen, American Actor

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"And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction."

Stanley Schmidt, American Writer

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"Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to 'cleaning' as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings " and anyway, she didn't need to know her mark's entire pedigree or life's story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read " on those rare occasions " her books were always dog-eared from the back."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

John Cheever, American Writer

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"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."

Anita Diament, American Author

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"It all floats down here!"

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Fear, Mystery, Darkness, Horror

"Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about."

Sanhita Baruah, Indian Writer

Fiction, Direction, Meaning, Focus, Clarity

"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."

John Green, American Author

Fiction, Novel, Reality, Truth, Life

"In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds."

Kit Carson, American Explorer

Fiction, First

"For some, vampires are still firmly in the 'evil, scary' column. However, in recent decades, vampires also run the gamut from evil to morally ambiguous all the way to fangless and vegetarian. I think part of their appeal lies in their versatility. Vampires can be the villain, the hero, and everything in between, all depending on the writer's whim. You'll also never hear me say that anyone is doing vampires 'wrong' because unless a real vampire stands up and sets the record straight, it's anyone's game as a far as defining them in fiction."

Jeaniene Frost, American Author

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"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on."

"And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction."

"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."

"It all floats down here!"

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

"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."

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

"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."

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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."