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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to…
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good…
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to…
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and…
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
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We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment…
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Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's…
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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our…
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One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their…
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Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.
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We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect…
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