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I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

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Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?

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I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people...more

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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

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...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

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For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not – Heaven help us ...more

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And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour...more

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The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is...more

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They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifte...more