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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020