"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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"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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"A public is a necessary fiction."

Rowan D. Williams, British Archbishop

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"I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction."

Judith Krantz, American Novelist

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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."

Stephen King, American Author

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"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

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"When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

John Cheever, American Writer

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"I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really."

Paul Kane, English Writer

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"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."

John Le Carre, English Writer

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"Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)-Gandalf came by."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about."

Sanhita Baruah, Indian Writer

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"A public is a necessary fiction."

"I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction."

"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."

"When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying."

"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

"I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really."

"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."

"Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)-Gandalf came by."

"Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about."

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"To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings."

"People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking."

"To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding."

"But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes."

"To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature."

"Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood."