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"Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling."
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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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"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."
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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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"Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material."
Transformation
"Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died."
Grief
"There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it."
Irony
"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."
Productivity
"Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care."
Wisdom
"Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself."
Philosophy
"Ambition is a stairway that never ends."
Ambition
"There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me."
Mindfulness
"You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre."
Creativity
"I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break."
Time
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