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Gao Xingjian

"Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature."

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Donna Grant

"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

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Donna Grant

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

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Donna Grant

"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."

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Donna Grant

"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."

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Donna Grant

"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."

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Donna Grant

"In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the book of him who has travelled the farthest over the surface of the globe, but of him who has lived the deepest and been the most at home."

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Donna Grant

"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."

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Donna Grant

"The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books."

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Donna Grant

"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."

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Donna Grant

"There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."

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Gao Xingjian
"As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds."

Man

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Gao Xingjian
"Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature."

Literature

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Gao Xingjian
"When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence."

Existence

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Gao Xingjian
"Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?"

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Gao Xingjian
"In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?"

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