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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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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"Wondering leads to writing."
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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."
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"Every great writer is a great reader."
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"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"
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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."
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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."
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"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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"My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris."
Thought
"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."
Challenge
"My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name."
Life
"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old."
Education
"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
Family
"I think situations are more important than plot and character."
Character
"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."
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"And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't."
Thought
"Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am."
Love
"After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half."
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