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"I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out."
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"Literature is analysis after the event."
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"A book is as private and consensual as sex."
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"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
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"I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing."
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"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."
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"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."
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"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy."
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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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"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
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"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
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"I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth."
People
"Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing."
Writing
"I love comic books and always did as a kid."
Love
"My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style."
Style
"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
Personality
"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."
Life
"I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out."
Literature
"It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more."
Now
"But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now."
Evolution
"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
Opportunity
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