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"A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader."
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"May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."
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"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
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"Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death."
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"Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message."
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"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
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"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
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"Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away."
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"It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs."
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"Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to 'cleaning' as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings " and anyway, she didn't need to know her mark's entire pedigree or life's story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read " on those rare occasions " her books were always dog-eared from the back."
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"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
Music
"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion."
Wisdom
"There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity."
Individuality
"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."
Nature
"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst."
Mind
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
Being
"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."
Mind
"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."
Imagination
"Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution."
Revolution
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