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• Beware of a man with manners.
• The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward…
• Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the…
• Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you…
• Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction…
• To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and…
• There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and…
• Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker…
• What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
• A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject…
• When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang…
• The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

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