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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."
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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."
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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"Read in order to live."
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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
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"To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat."
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"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
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"I was always influenced by language."
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"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
Books
"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."
Family
"However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned."
Writing
"I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place."
Age
"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into."
Writing
"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."
Poetry
"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."
Influence
"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."
Time
"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
Reading
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