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In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine…
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When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the…
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There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with…
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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
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We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into…
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Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a…
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Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject,…
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Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big…
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Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into…
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Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this…
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I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.
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All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?
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