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Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?…
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[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you…
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
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If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by…
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Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in…
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If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
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The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world…
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…
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I think we live in a very competitive world, and I love competition.
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I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it –…
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I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved.…
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Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid…
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My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.
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