- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.
- Manners
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020