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"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."
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"One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters."
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"We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading."
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"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."
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"Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic."
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"A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images."
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"She found as always that words on paper proved themselves, they were so beautifully true."
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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
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"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
Life
"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."
Travel
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
Being
"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
Friendship
"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
World
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
World
"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
Exploration
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
Literature
"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
Control
"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
Freedom
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