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"You learn a lot, writing fiction."
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"A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves."
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"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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"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."
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"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."
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"Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over."
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"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."
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"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
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"I don't read fiction at all."
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"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."
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"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."
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"I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation."
Character
"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."
Nation
"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."
Art
"Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present."
History
"The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form."
Fiction
"The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction."
Time
"There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history."
History
"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are."
Curiosity
"We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible."
Bible
"It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it."
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