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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."
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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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"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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"Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish."
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"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."
Creativity
"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
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"If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship."
Time
"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
Being
"Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House."
Man
"In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75."
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"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
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"A writer has to live with a sense of honor."
Honor
"Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life."
Life
"A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much."
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