"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."

Fiction, Imagination, Storytelling, Play

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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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"It all floats down here!"

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Fear, Mystery, Darkness, Horror

"The whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Wish, Desire, Irony, Mistake

"An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Disguise, Fear, Danger

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Magic, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"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

"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Fiction, Language, Past

"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

"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."

Robert Lutz, American Executive

Fiction, Media

"A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Fiction, World

"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."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Fiction, Occupation, Morality, Violence, Choice

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"When you enjoy a thought or activity, it's irrelevant whether it's meaningful or not."

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"It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery."

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"It all floats down here!"

"The whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want."

"An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?"

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

"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."

"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."

"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."

"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."

"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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"A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be."

"Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money."

"Beware of puny two-legged creatures claiming to be made in the image of God."

"Cynicism springs from disappointments in love."

"A story has value whether it's true or not."

"The familiar is by far the most beautiful."

"Whatever you love, do it now. Time is not on your side."

"My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are."

"When you enjoy a thought or activity, it's irrelevant whether it's meaningful or not."

"It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery."