Quotes 41 till 60 of 146.
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I have waited twenty-two years for this... I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
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I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
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I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
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I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.
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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.
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I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
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I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.
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If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
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It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
Everyman (2006) -
It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.
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It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.
Reading myself and others (1985)
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