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“I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.”

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I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've…

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I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

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It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

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I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

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The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

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I don't think good films have messages.

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Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

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One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

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“Dark here comes quickly. He undresses and slips into his silky cold sleeping bag. Up above, the clouds mask the stars and the moon…

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Work infuses my whole life. My creative life is my real life, so it's hard to separate.

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We stitch together our days and edit out our nights.

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I think patients and doctors alike minimise the physical, emotional, and financial toll of IVF.

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I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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