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W. Somerset Maugham _ The Painted Veil
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Laurie R. King _ The Arvon Book of Crime and
Many writers, good writers who ought to know better, focus so tightly on the structure demanded by a crime story that they lose track of the fact that they are writing a novel. Accusations of both sensationalism and trivialisation are, alas, often justified.
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Wisława Szymborska _ La gioia di scrivere. Tutte le
Dimenticano che la vita non è qui. Altre leggi, nero su bianco, vigono qui. Un batter d'occhio durerà quanto dico io, si lascerà dividere in piccole eternità piene di pallottole fermate in volo. Non una cosa avverrà qui se non voglio. Senza il mio assenso non cadrà foglia, né si piegherà stelo sotto il punto del piccolo zoccolo. C'è dunque un mondo di cui reggo le sorti indipendenti? Un tempo che lego con catene di segni? Un esistere a mio comando incessante? La gioia di scrivere. Il potere di perpetuare. La vendetta d'una mano mortale.
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Wisława Szymborska _ Here
I've wanted to write about them for a long while,but it's a tricky subject,always put off for laterand perhaps worthy of a better poet,even more stunned by the world than I.But time is short. I write."
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Sigrid Nunez _ The Friend
A friend of mine who is working on a memoir says, I hate the idea of writing as some kind of catharsis, because it seems like that can't possibly produce a good book.You cannot hope to console yourself for your grief by writing, warns Natalia Ginzburg.Turn then to Isak Dinesen, who believed that you could make any sorrow bearable by putting into into a story or telling a story about it."
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Sigrid Nunez _ The Friend
Rather than write about what you know, you told us, write about what you Assume that you know very little and that you'll never know much until you learn how to see.
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Sigrid Nunez _ The Friend
Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it."
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Sigrid Nunez _ The Friend
The problem of self-loathing isn't new. What's new is the idea that it's the people with the history of greatest injustice who have the greatest right to be heard, and that the time has come for the arts not just to make room for them but to be dominated by them.
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Haruki Murakami _ Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us."
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Haruki Murakami _ Norwegian Wood
Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?
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Haruki Murakami _ Hear the Wind Sing
That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.
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Haruki Murakami _ Sputnik Sweetheart
If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.
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