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My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.

~Daniel Handler

Topics: Agent Almost Amount Ever Fiction Finally First Had Literary Money Novel Rejected Sell Six Smallest Sold Then Times Took Work Years

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It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

~Daniel Keys Moran

Topics: Does Fast Fiction Moves Ours Science Science Fiction Strange Very World Writing

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Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in compelling ways, will succeed.

~Daniel Suarez

Topics: Authors Compelling Farm Fiction Market New Publishing Say Stories Succeed System Things Voices Ways Who Will

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Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Complex Deal Discovering Falling Falling In Love Fiction How Love Me People Reading Relationships Taught Those Understand

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I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Amount Because Between Considerably Course Did Fiction Forced Go High High School Lot Mostly Non-Fiction Quite Ratio Read Recent Recent Years School Teenager Think Through Well Years I Think

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There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: Between Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Overlap Spot Sweet

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I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: Always Crime Crime Fiction Democracy Fiction Good Insistence Just Kind Like Muscle Narrative Notion Principle Punch Really Root Underlying

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Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.

~Dara Horn

Topics: Adult Between Books Explored Fiction Figure Lot Often Relationships See Sibling You

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Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Book Fiction Fiction Writer Get Glad Like Liked Really Saying Something World Writer You Your E-Mails

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When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Fiction Ideal Mind Reader Smarter Sort Write You Your

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