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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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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,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
— Peter De Vries
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Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where…
— Paul Auster
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Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible…
— Arthur David Beaty
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Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
— David Berlinski
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Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened…
— Italo Calvino
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Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
— Jane Smiley
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The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every…
— Jose Emilio Pacheco
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
— May Sarton
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There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
— John le Carre
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time…
— Rose Tremain
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
— Penelope Lively
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