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- I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to…
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that…
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however…
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
- I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
- When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all…
- I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its…
- Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have…
- We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes…
- Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot,…
- All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe,…
- I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's…
- Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude.…
- Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the…
- All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
- Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been…
- it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom
- That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of…
- Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman