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Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.

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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

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We live for books.

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The visitor enters and says, "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" ...The best answer is the one always used by Roberto Leydi: "And more, dea...more

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I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

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From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

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To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual worl...more

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There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

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I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Gen...more

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I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

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When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working w...more

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I felt like poisoning a monk.

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The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

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Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

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Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a...more