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“In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.” quote by Michael Finkel — Download Open image

“In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.”

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I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

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“He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears…

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America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances.

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“the true solitary does not seek himself, but loses himself.”

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“The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that “no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.”

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“If you like solitude, you're never alone.”

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“The first great literary work about solitude, the Tao Te Ching, was written in ancient China, likely in the sixth century B.C., by a…

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There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found…

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“The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer.”

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I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has…

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I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.

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“He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.”

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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.”

Christopher K. Krebs

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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.”

Louisa May Alcott

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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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