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"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
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"We write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are."
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"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work."
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"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."
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"The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to, surely one can only write the book that is there to be written."
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"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."
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"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
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"The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more."
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Explore more quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
Existence
"Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies.For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end."
Literature
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
Man
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
Religion
"Life itself is a quotation."
Life
"We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods."
Mythology
"He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite."
Philosophy
"It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death."
Mortality
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
Reading
"So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature."
Art
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