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"My life is a reading list."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
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"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."
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"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
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"I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?"
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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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"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
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"As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today."
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"People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support.' And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; because of an experience that has denied them their humanity, they go around denying another kind of humanity in others, which is the truth of human variety -- it stands alongside our sameness."
Humanity
"We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them."
Mindset
"Half my life is an act of revision."
Life
"It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules."
Society
"Because who can describe the look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?"
Memory
"Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives."
Fate
"For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself, he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up."
Life
"Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can't turn you away."
Society
"I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography."
Imagination
"In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they're foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity."
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