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"Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand."
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"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
"However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!"
"He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year."
"A change in hairstyle gives a new look."
"I am chic, sleek, and so unique."
"When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm."
"I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event."
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"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."
"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."
"To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone."
"The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences."
"In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out."
"When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain."
"I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much."
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