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What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a…
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You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might…
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The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
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It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany…
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Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her…
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Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked…
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My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.
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The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his…
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.
— Andrea Barrett
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The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his…
— Gail Caldwell
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A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.
— Kenneth Anger
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There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience,…
— Thomas Conklin
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
— Joseph Conrad
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THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new…
— Ronald Harwood
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The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
— Isobelle Carmody
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