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The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward…
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Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you…
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction…
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To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and…
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There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and…
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A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject…
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When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang…
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write…
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
— Michael Parenti
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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last…
— Jules de Goncourt
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If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring Humans, and from the same mouth you devoured Humans, you…
— Tite Kubo
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Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his…
— Gena Showalter
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And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures
— Arthur Rimbaud
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures;…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
— Dan Brown
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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