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"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."
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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."
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"I am against the notion of style in itself."
Style
"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
Identity
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
Literature
"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."
Literature
"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."
Writing
"I think all writing is done through memory."
Memory
"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels."
Books
"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
Books
"For me, words are just words, nothing else."
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"Puns are a form of humor with words."
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