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"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
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"It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique."
"The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine."
"In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive."
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