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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

~Cameron Winklevoss

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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

~Camilla Lackberg

Topics: Across Available Become Crime Crime Fiction English Fiction Generation Great Great Success Many Now Rightfully Scandinavian Success Swedish Whole Whom World Writers

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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

~Camilla Lackberg

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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

~Candace Bushnell

Topics: About Been Down Fiction Just Me Nature Now Old Out Perfectly Process Second Second Nature Since Sit Something Start Writing Years

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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

~Candace Bushnell

Topics: About City Did Fiction Month Sex Sex And The City Stories Story Through Twenties Wanted Were Would Write

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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

~Candace Camp

Topics: Education English Fiction Helped Historical Historical Fiction History Me Prepare Really Taught Writing

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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.

~Candace Camp

Topics: Adult Also At Least One Attorneys Authors Books Fiction Know Lawyers Least Legal Only Other Romantic Several Thrillers Who Write Writes Young Young Adult

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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

~Carl Clinton Van Doren

Topics: After Away Borders Closer Conquest Cooper Cultivation Death East Fiction Generation Ground Main Marked Mississippi Nearly New Tendency Too

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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

~Carl Clinton Van Doren

Topics: Almost American Born Cabin Coincidence Cooper Died Exactly Fiction First Great He His Life Limits Mark Mere Passing Period Power Produced Serial Stage Sympathy Through Tom Uncle Which Year

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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

~Carl Clinton Van Doren

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