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"Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand."
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"However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!"
"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
"Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface."
"Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white."
"Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap."
"I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style."
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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."
"Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time."
"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."
"I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much."
"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."
"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."
"Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive."
"Is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?"
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