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Utada Hikaru

"I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late."

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Donna Grant

"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."

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Donna Grant

"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

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Donna Grant

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."

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Donna Grant

"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

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Donna Grant

"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."

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Donna Grant

"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."

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Donna Grant

"I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--I loved it, and yet it filled me with a sort of despair. It was written so beautifully--I can never write like that, I feel sure. And one--it was just like a pig-sty. Dean gave me that one by mistake."

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Donna Grant

"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."

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Donna Grant

"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."

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Donna Grant

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

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Utada Hikaru
"The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody."

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Utada Hikaru
"People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States."

People

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Utada Hikaru
"But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words."

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Utada Hikaru
"And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics."

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Utada Hikaru
"I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself."

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Utada Hikaru
"There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now."

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Utada Hikaru
"I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late."

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Utada Hikaru
"The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested."

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Utada Hikaru
"When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea."

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Utada Hikaru
"In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning."

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