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“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper edge of his window frame. A pair of very soft, clean glistening black shoes a...”
“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”
“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express my...”
“Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.”
“You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, ho...”
“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”
“He had a book to finish. Ten-thousand words. The other ninety thousand had been difficult. This last tenth seemed impossible. His plot had become derailed. He was unable to see his way through the ...”
“The novel cannot submit to authority.”
“Everything was bright and white, even in the night.”
“Sexual harassment cases are piling up. The whole schools going love crazy!”
“Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line”
“Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You cant trade what is for what might have been.”
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done or have fantasized about. love, deception, ro...”
“I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.”
“Be quick, but don't hurry.”
“You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.”
“Theres something so great about this, she whispers. About what? I whisper back.About this, she whispers. About being outlaws. Its just you and meagainst the world.”
“It was disconcerting that being in love felt lonelier than lonelines.”
“It began with a perfect plan. Shape-wise we had a circle, a simple uncomplicated curve to guide us comfortably from one thing to another, an easy predictable ride promising a natural progression fr...”
“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a m...”
