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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.


Ralph Allen
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Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.
Michael Carbonaro
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.


E. L. Doctorow
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There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.


Lou Reed
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I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.


Timothy Radcliffe
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison
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Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.
Debbie Ford
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When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.
Philippe Petit
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel
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My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.
Joanna Trollope
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First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.


Kathy Acker
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I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.


Ruth Glick
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.


Emily Dickinson
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler
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I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was to start writing fiction, and I guess one day I'd just had enough.
Daniel H. Wilson
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A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. Kennedy
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Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.
Eleanor Catton
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We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?


Poul Anderson
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When I was four years old, my father, who was a colonel in the army, was stationed in Salzburg, Austria. Across the street from our house was an ancient castle on a cliff. So when I first heard fairy tales, I felt as if the magic of 'Cinderella' or 'Sleeping Beauty' was taking place right in my own neighborhood.
Mary Pope Osborne
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I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before.
Alicia Keys
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