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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to…
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good…
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to…
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and…
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
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Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging…
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Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere…
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Thursday? Oh no, it can't be! Â It's too gruesome.
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I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though…
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It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
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Thursday! It can’t be! It’s too gruesome!
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Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain…
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Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
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And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you…
— Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very…
— Mary Roach
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Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel.…
— William Bernhardt
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