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"I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one."
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"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."
"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."
"Are you naked?" he rasped out. Swallowing hard, she nodded."
"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."
"If it's fiction, then it better be true."
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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."
"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."
"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed."
"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."
"I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else."
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