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A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

~ Steven Erikson

Along Both Dream Ease Entertained Fictional Invites Kind Lost Reader Slide Story Superficial Want Writer

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All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

~ Steven Erikson

Among Amount Art Artists Fear Gesture Intensely Made Mechanisms Plenty Risk Self-Defense Small Small Amounts Sympathy Vulnerable

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Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.

~ Steven Erikson

Across Affection Believe Come Difficult Easily Fiction Forced Friendships Gestures Involve Many Much Particularly Too Too Much Write

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I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.

~ Steven Erikson

Core Down Feel Right Writing

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I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point.

~ Steven Erikson

Able Among Course Fantasy Freedom Genre Genres Greatest How Make Metaphor Often Only Point Real Spoken Starting Starting Point Take

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The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

~ Steven Erikson

Author Being Conceit Experience Her His Idea Life Life Experience Little Ongoing Own Tale Very Worth Written

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When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

~ Steven Erikson

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