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"American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous."
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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
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"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
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"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
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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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"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."
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"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."
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"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once-and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters."
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there."
Truth
"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."
Society
"In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic."
Technology
"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
Work
"May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan."
Action
"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."
Future
"People will always make comparisons."
People
"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
Nature
"When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery."
Writing
"American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous."
Literature
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