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• In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.
• If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle...he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout…
• What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.
• One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book.…
• You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist…
• It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
• Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.
• I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
• Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.
• A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch,
• You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out…
• It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

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