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"I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives."
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"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
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"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world."
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"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."
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"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
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"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."
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"I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word."
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"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."
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"I'm here to make sense."
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"So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes."
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"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
Experience
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
Fiction
"If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level."
Books
"We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another."
Lie
"In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs."
People
"By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way."
Age
"Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do."
Balance
"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."
Madness
"Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves."
Heart
"When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."
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