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"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."
"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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"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier."
"Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract."
"I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt."
"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."
"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."
"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."
"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."
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