"I have found that in fiction one is……" — Philip Sington
"I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness."
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Philip Sington
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12 Quotes by Philip Sington
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The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous.
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I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.
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To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.
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One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what…
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One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is…
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I wanted her body and soul, but body first.
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Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the…
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The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per…
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And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and…
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All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on…
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We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.
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