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Inside Quotes by Siri Hustvedt
- Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under…
- That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we…
- Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it…
- The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in…
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- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power… — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a… — Margaret Atwood
- We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has… — Diane Ackerman
- I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap. — Dan Aykroyd
- Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be… — J. G. Ballard
- I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside. — Eric Bana
- All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little… — John Banville
- We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it… — Dave Barry