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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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"As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag."
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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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"But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?"
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"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."
Reading
"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."
Nation
"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."
Beginning
"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."
Writing
"It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down."
Writing
"I am against the notion of style in itself."
Style
"Puns are a form of humor with words."
Humor
"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
Books
"For me, words are just words, nothing else."
Nothing
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
Identity
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