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"I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it)."
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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"
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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
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"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."
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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
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"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."
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"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."
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"It is the most fun I'm ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there's nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it. It's the greatest peace when I'm in a scene, and it's just me and the character, that's it, that's where I want to live my life."
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"The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror."
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"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."
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"The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret."
Power
"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."
Man
"There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one."
Creativity
"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."
Danger
"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."
Love
"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
Truth
"He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives."
Psychology
"Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale."
History
"I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us."
Fear
"From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola."
Creativity
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