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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."
"I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules."
"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments."
"That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things."
"I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity."
"Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them."
"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
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"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."
"London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other."
"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."
"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."
"I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium."
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