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“I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.”

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David Liss is an American author born in 1966. His works primarily focus on historical fiction, especially set in 17th-century Europe. Liss's novels often revolve around themes of suspense and crime, and are well-received by readers. more

“I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.”

World Believe Wells Moving Used Desire Felt Ocean Miles Impulse Swim Chests Thread

Book:Outline

Source: Outline

“If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.”

Ifs Love Is Hatred Immortal Reverse

Book:Outline: A Novel

Source: Outline: A Novel

“The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.”

Want Made Self Seems Novel Musical Release Liberation True Self Sonnet Constraints Undefined

Author:Rachel Cusk

“Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.”

Writing Mind Art Self Emotion Art Is Worthiness

Author:Rachel Cusk

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