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"The writer works in a lonely way."
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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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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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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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"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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"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters."
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"Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over."
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"I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else."
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"The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves."
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"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."
Fiction
"A writer has to live with a sense of honor."
Honor
"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
Literature
"Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own."
Work
"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
Literature
"A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much."
Talk
"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough."
Books
"A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor."
Being
"All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one."
Literature
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