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- It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with…
- Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more…
- I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to…
- After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine…
- Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my…
- I don't know what marriages are like in general, but there are many things which I don't talk about with my husband. We discuss practical…
- I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read…
- I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that…
- I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first…
- I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the…
- I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,'…
- 'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only…
- When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain…
- Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an…
- The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
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