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"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."
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"I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours."
"Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising."
"I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly."
"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
"It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope."
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."
"In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States."
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"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."
"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."
"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes."
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