"In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward."

Time, Work

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"In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

Time, Right

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Time, Luck, Now

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

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"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."

Chris Brown, American Musician

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"Time is running out to permeate the piece."

Tommy Tune, American Dancer

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"We have not the time to take our time."

Eugene Ionesco, French Dramatist

Time,

"No money can buy back the moment that is gone"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Laws are silent in time of war."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward."

Time, Work

"In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it."

Work, Day, Needs, Writing, Years

"Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."

Memory,

"Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories."

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"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window."

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"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."

Complexity, Nothing

"The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home."

Home, Life, Children, Deep

"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."

Want,

"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."

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