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"Literature is the question minus the answer."
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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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"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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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."
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"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."
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"There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."
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"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."
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"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
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"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
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"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."
Fashion
"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."
Love
"Literature is the question minus the answer."
Literature
"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."
Knowledge
"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality."
Nature
"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."
Passion
"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."
Power
"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."
Desire
"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."
Life
"The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!"
Policy
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