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"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."
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"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."
"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."
"Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward."
"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."
"I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?"
"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."
"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate."
"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."
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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."
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