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"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
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"Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish."
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"If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs."
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"The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true."
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"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."
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"But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality."
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"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.."
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"You're much shorter than my mom.""Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle."That's no way to talk to a vampire.""Bloodsucking brat.""Better" he said."
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"Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story, to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all."
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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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"The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song."
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"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."
Colors

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
Fiction

"Groan and forget it."
Acceptance

"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."
Communication

"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."
Friendship

"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."
People

"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
Communication

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."
Change

"Teaching is the royal road to learning."
Learning

"The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow."
Joy
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