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"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."
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"May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."
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"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
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"Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death."
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"Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message."
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"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
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"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
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"Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away."
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"It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs."
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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."
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"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
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"In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada."
Poetry
"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
Performance
"I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last."
Change
"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."
Fiction
"In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature."
Nature
"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."
Influence
"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."
Needs
"I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no."
Being
"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."
Poetry
"I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."
Poetry
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