"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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"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."

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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."

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

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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."

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"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."

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

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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

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"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."

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"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."

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