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"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."
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"May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."
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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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"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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"Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish."
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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."
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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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"Enjoying nonsense is one of life's primal pleasures."
Happiness
"The void can only be filled with love."
Love
"Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it."
Truth
"Cynicism springs from disappointments in love."
Emotion
"Rivers are lucky. They can only move in one direction."
Nature
"Trust opens the door that pain had sealed shut."
Healing
"Where personal experience is concerned, we all speak a different language."
Communication
"Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow."
Nature
"There is no need to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years."
Morality
"What can be achieved with suffering can be achieved without it."
Growth
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