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Harry Mathews

"It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step."

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"It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step."

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Donna Grant

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."

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Donna Grant

"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."

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Donna Grant

"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."

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Donna Grant

"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

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Donna Grant

"What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth..."

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Donna Grant

"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."

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Harry Mathews
"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."

Death

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Harry Mathews
"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."

Time

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Harry Mathews
"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."

Education

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Harry Mathews
"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."

Challenge

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Harry Mathews
"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."

Dream

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Harry Mathews
"Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am."

Love

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Harry Mathews
"Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest."

Poetry

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Harry Mathews
"It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step."

Writing

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Harry Mathews
"What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading."

Life

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Harry Mathews
"I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing."

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