"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."

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"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."

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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."

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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

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"The world remains ever the same."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."

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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

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"The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."

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"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."

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"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."

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"Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous."

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"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."

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"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."

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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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"It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow."

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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."

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"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."

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