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"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."
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"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."
"The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory."
"Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry."
"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear."
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"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."
"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."
"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."
"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."
"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."
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