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"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
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"She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She's always ready to laugh."
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"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."
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"He sniggered.He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now."
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"She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important."
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"Possessed of that indescribable charm called grace."
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"Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind."
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"Be charming at any age."
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"You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard, I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music."
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"Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded."
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"Ronan did not smoke, he preferred his habits with hangovers."
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"But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now."
Evolution
"I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before."
Character
"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."
Life
"I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century."
Work
"The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content."
Balance
"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
Personality
"When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring."
Control
"My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style."
Style
"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable."
Comedy
"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
Opportunity
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