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> [Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabina-murray/joseph-conrad-and-heart-of-darkness-loom-huge-in-my-development-as-a/)

[Sabina Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabina-murray/)

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## Other authors on Conrad

## More by Sabina Murray

> [Valerie Martin was my mentor in college and she liked fiction that said something. That made it essential to have something to say. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabina-murray/valerie-martin-was-my-mentor-in-college-and-she-liked-fiction-that/)

[Sabina Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabina-murray/)

> [What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabina-murray/what-does-literature-do-for-me-i-think-i-solve-problems-in-my-writing/)

[Sabina Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabina-murray/)

> [In this cultural moment, many of us are feeling inadequate to solve societal problems - fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-Semitism, the list goes on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabina-murray/in-this-cultural-moment-many-of-us-are-feeling-inadequate-to-solve/)

[Sabina Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabina-murray/)

> [I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabina-murray/i-guess-the-wildcard-here-is-terrence-malick-he-supervised-me-while-i/)

[Sabina Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabina-murray/)

> [Roger Casement is an intriguing figure - humanitarian, Irish revolutionary, gay - and much had and would be written about him, there was something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabina-murray/roger-casement-is-an-intriguing-figure-humanitarian-irish/)

[Sabina Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabina-murray/)

> [Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabina-murray/monstress-is-an-exhilarating-rollercoaster-of-a-book-deeply-funny/)

[Sabina Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabina-murray/)

> [Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabina-murray/joseph-conrad-and-heart-of-darkness-loom-huge-in-my-development-as-a/)

[Sabina Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabina-murray/)

> [Every book presents its own specific challenges, or should, and you're right that this one has a preoccupation with uncertainty. In this, Valiant Gentlemen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabina-murray/every-book-presents-its-own-specific-challenges-or-should-and-you-re/)

[Sabina Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabina-murray/)

> [Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up the definition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabina-murray/perhaps-no-man-is-an-island-but-every-man-and-woman-is-a-nation-unto/)

[Sabina Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabina-murray/)

> [In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived "great" lives,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sabina-murray/in-some-ways-valiant-gentlemen-grows-out-of-tales-of-the-new-world-my/)

[Sabina Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sabina-murray/)

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