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“I definitely wanted much more normalness than what was around me.”

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Miranda July, born on February 15, 1974, is an accomplished American film director known for her distinctive narrative style and profound emotional expression. Her work has garnered widespread acclaim from audiences and critics alike. more

“I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the certainty of its own truth. And since there are 6,000 religions currently on the face of the earth, they can't all be right. And only the secular spirit can guarantee those freedoms and it's the secular spirit that they contest.”

Thinking Feels I Can Earth Faces Spirit Written Certainty Guarantees Tolerate Secular Contests Against Religion Rubrics

Author:Ian Mcewan

“I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.”

World Writing Sex My Own Fictional Worlds

Author:Zadie Smith

“To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.”

Ifs Different Enough Stories Bits Simple Creation Reader Narrative Transport Different Times

Author:Lydia Davis

“I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.”

Way Writing Believe May Difficult Poet Reader Don't Believe Obscure

Author:Lydia Davis

“I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one that doesn't use colloquialisms, lyrical flourishes, heavy supplies of metaphor, etc., is a style, and it becomes a writer's characteristic style just as much as a thicker, richer deployment of idiom and vocabulary.”

Believe Ends Use Style Don't Believe Metaphor Heavy Characteristics Etc Vocabulary Supplies Lyrical Deployment Idiom

Author:Lydia Davis

“You have to learn to cut your cloth accordingly. But it seems to be a human weakness. Once you start making a lot of money, you just join in with everyone else. It's like the banks, and we've seen what happens there.”

Humans Seems Happens Cutting Weakness Lots Of Money

Author:John Hurt

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