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“For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.”

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Paul Auster is an American author known for his unique narrative style and philosophical reflections. His works often explore themes of identity, memory, and reality, and have won him a wide audience. more

“Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.”

Knows Wells Reason Interesting Novel Hero Areas Right Thing Gray Villain Most Interesting Wrong Things Wrong Reasons Gray Area

Author:Dan Brown

“The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.”

Bigs Black Husband Shadow Phones Cancer My Husband Hospitals Corridors

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here.”

Humans Kind Seems Beautiful Mistake Personality Genes Susceptible Multicultural Edifice Uncanny Flipped Mutants Human Personality

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.”

Writing Sometimes Wall Down And Trade One Word Bricklaying

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.”

People Thinking Asks Knowing Trouble Listening Praying Habit Blessing Mindfulness Atheist Sirens Ambulance

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The 'mot juste' unarriving? Tell that to your desk.”

Writing Years Stories Middle News Seven East Middle East Desks Reporters Equipment Balkans East Africa

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?”

Want Mind Book Sometimes Literature Vision Clean Burning Filthy Book Burning

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.”

Kind Has Beens Moments Beautiful Certain Painful Convinced Rage Minorities Bubbles

Author:Jayson Blair

“When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.”

People Want Stories Right Thing Reports Wrong Things

Author:Jayson Blair

“And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.”

People Ifs Believe Doe Months Enormous Coming Out Swings Polls One Direction Electorate

Author:Jim Bolger

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