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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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"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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"Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish."
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"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."
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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."
"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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