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“We made the world uninhabitable for ourselves and it can only be inhabited by robots and androids.”

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Scottish novelist known for his novel 'Trainspotting', which depicted the drug culture in Edinburgh, Scotland. Welsh's works are characterized by a realistic style and delve into social issues. more

“At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about "Between the Acts" and "Mrs. Dalloway'' but mostly about "To the Lighthouse." With Beckett I focused, perversely, on his novels, "Molloy," "Malone Dies," and "The Unnamable." That's when I decided I should never write again.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.”

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Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.”

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Author:Kesha

“I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made me think about language.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years. It's a novel about what happened in the 1960s, and I think America is still dealing with what happened then. It's devastatingly sad.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.”

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Author:David Duchovny

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