"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."

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"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."

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"May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."

Stephen King, American Author

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"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."

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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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"It all floats down here!"

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Fear, Mystery, Darkness, Horror

"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

"The whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Wish, Desire, Irony, Mistake

"An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Disguise, Fear, Danger

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Magic, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"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."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."

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"In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that."

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"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."

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"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."

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"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."

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"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."

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"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."

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