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The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences.…
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All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.
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Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if…
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The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am…
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Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather…
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David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching.…
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If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.
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To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs…
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What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to…
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And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one…
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The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that…
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It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
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When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice…
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It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be…
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Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to…
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He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
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The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and…
— Aldous Huxley
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All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty…
— Nicole Krauss
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I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-" "Beautiful," she said, and she meant it.…
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Will you accompany me in this dance?” he said, bowing and holding out his hand. “No, thank you.” Miri smiled. The prince…
— Shannon Hale
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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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You look ridiculous,” Wren said. “What?” “That shirt.” It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed…
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