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Nov 07, 2020

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Heavy
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Nov 07, 2020

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

Oppression
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Nov 07, 2020

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

Fabulous
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Nov 07, 2020

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

Generation
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Nov 07, 2020

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Everything
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Nov 07, 2020

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Days
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Nov 07, 2020

I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.

Literature
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Nov 07, 2020

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

Loved
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Nov 07, 2020

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Chance
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Nov 07, 2020

I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Genuine
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Nov 07, 2020

How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.

Believe
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Nov 07, 2020

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

Chance
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Nov 07, 2020

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.

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Nov 07, 2020

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

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Nov 07, 2020

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

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