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One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening -…
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The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All…
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I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.
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Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who…
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One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes,…
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This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.
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The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you…
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You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all…
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I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore…
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The real Santa Claus is at the mall.
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Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if…
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How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you…
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes,…
— E. L. James
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Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of…
— Susan Hill
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The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics,…
— Johannes V. Jensen
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My literary success meant nothing to me
— Taylor Caldwell
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place…
— Harold Brodkey
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I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
— George Orwell
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
— Martin Amis
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
— Jonathan Coe
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
— Rick Moody
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The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
— Scott Turow
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
— Robert Harris
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