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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about,…
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Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The…
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Rereading, we find a new book.
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Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come;…
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The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love…
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A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
— Italo Calvino
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I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a…
— Joan Didion
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We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor…
— Damian Lewis
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
— Vince Vaughn
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Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.
— Stephen Vizinczey
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Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the…
— R. A. Lafferty
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I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination.…
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