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Quotes by Writer
"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations."
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"Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers."
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"During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed."
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"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world."
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"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them."
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"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
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"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."
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"The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice."
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"Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them."
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"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination."
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"In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better."
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"Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination."
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"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy."
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"I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me."
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"Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary."
God,
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"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
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"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."
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"The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting."
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"I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram."
Work,
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"And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere."
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"Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with his poisoned cocktail! Anyone might have drunk it! It might have been me!""There is an even more terrible possibility that you have not considered," said Poirot. "Eh?""It might have been me," said Hercule Poirot."
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"General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others."
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"They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence, their experiments did not always succeed."
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"To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise."
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"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
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"One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others."
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"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying."
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"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them."
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"The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis."
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"Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
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