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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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We expect a great man to be a good reader.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
— Zadie Smith
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But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and…
— Laura Bush
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I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person,…
— James Laughlin
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I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock…
— Clive Cussler
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I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems,…
— Diane Wakoski
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The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has…
— Nathalie Sarraute
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into…
— Henry Miller
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