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"I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."
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"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."
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"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
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"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
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"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."
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"I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book."
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"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
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"It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings."
Love
"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."
Life
"Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other."
Love
"I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works."
Literature
"I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now."
People
"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."
Perception
"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
Photography
"Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits."
Writing
"I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target."
Hope
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