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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
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"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world."
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"The world has gotten so interwoven."
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"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
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"The World is enough brutal don't make it mad and crazy more, so far I think that the adrenaline is on it's own full capacity."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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"Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too."
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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion."
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"More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina."
Life
"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."
Writing
"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
World
"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
Business
"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."
Family
"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."
Writing
"When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things."
Life
"No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him."
Family
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
Reading
"Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is."
Writing
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