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"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."
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"I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores."
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"I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book."
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"More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray."
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"A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul."
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"When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough."
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"I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashfuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my personal anthem."
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"I'm fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high."
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"Smiling and Expressions of Emotion. A genuine smile is inviting, contagious, and encouraging. People do read a book by its cover and your expressions provide a glimpse for what they'll find inside."
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"It's not really outstanding when you're standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout."
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"Smiling is one of your most powerful non-verbal behaviors. People do read a book by its cover and these expressions provide glimpses into what they will find inside."
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"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."
Expression
"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."
Darkness
"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."
Time
"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."
World
"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
Mind
"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes."
War
"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
Perception
"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."
Expression
"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
Creativity
"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."
Time
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