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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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I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited…
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Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas…
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they…
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We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how…
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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…
— Steven Saylor
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I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable…
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Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored…
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To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational…
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I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer…
— Frederick Wiseman
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