- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.
- Nov 07, 2020
We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
- Cruelty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
- Fuel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.
- Eras
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- Nov 07, 2020