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- A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
- Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust…
- I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of…
- Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
- I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
- I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
- I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to…
- If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
- In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
- Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
- Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out…
- Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
- One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
- Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
- I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a…
- Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And…
- Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and…
- I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't…
- I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood…
- I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers'…
- I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of…
- It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten…
- Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person…
- Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are…
- My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I…
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