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“Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is furrowed, wrinkled, sagging, ravaged by time. But the eyes are bright and, if not young, th...”
“For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.”
“You know too little and it doesn't exist. You know too much and it doesn't exist. Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens ...”
“Attributing to another author, "Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.”
“Until I moved to Stockhold I had felt there was a continuity to my life, as if it stretched unbroken from childhood up to the present, held together by new connections, in a complex and ingenious p...”
