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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…
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My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.
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But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place…
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The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst…
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To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you…
— Zadie Smith
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One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth.…
— Terry Pratchett
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I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word…
— Charlaine Harris
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CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive…
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Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your…
— Terry Pratchett
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Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
— Neil Gaiman
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His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression…
— Terry Pratchett
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