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• Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
• There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with…
• Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
• But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
• To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think…
• Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.
• I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?
• I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
• I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
• I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for…
• I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
• In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal…

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