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"I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world."
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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
"Grow up and be different and don't let anyone tell you not to be different, because all superheroes are different."
"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
"The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore."
"Our differences are the real treasures."
"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
"There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself."
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"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."
"When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not."
"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."
"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."
"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."
"Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners."
"For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970."
"I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story."
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