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"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."
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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"Wondering leads to writing."
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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."
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"Every great writer is a great reader."
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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."
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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."
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"I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe."
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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"
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"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
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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
"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."
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"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
"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
Life
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