"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."

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"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?"

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"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."

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

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Robert Lutz, American Executive

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Harold Brodkey, American Author

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Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine."

William Gass, American Novelist

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"If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination."

"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

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