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"Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Fiction, Literary

"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."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Fiction, Writing, God, Imagination

"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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Fiction, Illusion, Truth, Purpose

"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Fiction, Art, Imagination, Possibility, Reality

"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."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Morality, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"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."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

Fiction, Humor, Dialogue, Playfulness, Personality

"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."

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Today

"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."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Adventure, Truth, Regret, Power

"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."

Jason Mraz, American Musician

Fiction, Song, Songs

"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

Fiction, Fun, Writing, Years

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"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."

Money

"What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time."

Time

"When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars."

Time

"My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area."

Family

"When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer."

Society

"Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young."

Man

"What sustains me is to be with my family and to write."

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"Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish."

"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."

"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."

"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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"There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left."

"Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs."

"Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."

"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."

"What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time."

"When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars."

"My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area."

"When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer."

"Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young."

"What sustains me is to be with my family and to write."