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- If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third…
- One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
- I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent…
- I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
- But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in…
- Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to…
- The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if…
- That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut…
- The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained…
- You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and…
- One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
- At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal,…
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