Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless...

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost...

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost...

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger...

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger...

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on...

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is...

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he...

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he...

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings...

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings...

Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts,...

Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts,...