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Tom Rachman has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at…
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Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.…
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Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.
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Anything that's worth anything is complicated.
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Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you…
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We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of…
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When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of…
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My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream…
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The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.
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Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and…
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A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life.…
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to…
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
— John le Carre
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I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I…
— Howard Stern
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through…
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
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If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is…
— Sam Lipsyte
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The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,…
— Nadine Gordimer
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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the…
— Harold Brodkey
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It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you…
— Flannery O'Connor
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I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that…
— Jennifer Egan
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I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.
— Tim LaHaye
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