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"While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

"Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere."

"I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist."

"General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else."

"We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction."

"T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true."

"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today."

"All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be gra..."

"Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life"