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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020