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"Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened windows now bearded with snow, indifferent to the fact it was now cut off from the world. Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster."
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"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."

"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."

"A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay."

"CALVIN:Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien."

"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."

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"If I kept saying it, if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't."


"About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are."


"And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood, pain, and stupidity."


"Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be."


"As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me."
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