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4391 Novelist Quotes

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Beat Deeper Down Integrity
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Arrangements Largely Maintaining Make
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Make Open People Powerless
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Cunning Exile Ideas Keep
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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Books Language Man Shaped
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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Life Meaning Measure Modern
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Affiliation Independent Influence Outside
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Advances Between Connection Develop
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Force Live Moral Out
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Belittle Created Mystery Something
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Considered Dangerous Jail Repressive
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Act Fantasies Massive Never
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Alone Concept Doom Invented
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

America Book Come Europe
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

Another Credibility Find Had
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The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Became Denied Insult Life
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

Being Discuss Great Loss
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

Act Believe Blowing Bomber
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Employee Just Movies Servant
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Accounts Afraid Allowed Asked
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

Based Been Date Ideas
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Contemporary Gets History Message
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Exceptions General Can Think
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Always Desk Discipline Get
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

About Children Leaving Them
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.

Am Books Business Suppressing
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

Attack Based Caused Countries
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

Accepted Family Female Friends
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

Away Power Taking Think
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I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

Again Am Fall Going
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
Because Books Endure Enough
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

Advertising Am Bear Because
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Every EveryTime Give Happens
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Always Asked Away Beginners
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Any Art Been Danger
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Beautiful Brave Dragons Lives
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Between Bond Each Highest
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Bearing Creator Deepest Experience
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Being Deepest Everything Help
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

Beings Each Faces Human
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

Apart Before Curtain Falling
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Good Marriages May Pleasant
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Bed Belongs Four Legs
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Able Act Am Anything
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Action Against Fear Had
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Another Being Difficult Human
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Belief Believe Cultivate Feelings
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Begin Blood Mind Soaring
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Being Emotion Emotions Gather
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