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"Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit."
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"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."
Books
"Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit."
Literature
"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
Expectation
"Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another."
Nerd
"The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals."
Religion
"My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work."
Work
"I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane."
Time
"I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example."
Friendship
"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."
Fiction
"I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy."
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"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."
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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
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"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature."
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"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
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"If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up."
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"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
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"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
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"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."
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"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
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"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."
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