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"Много се радвам, че миналия месец в Лондон посетих Freemason’s Hall сградата, заедно с музея и библиотеката. Четенетo сега е още по-забавно." — 2 hours, 32 min ago
"Много се радвам, че миналия месец в Лондон посетих Freemason’s Hall сградата, заедно с музея и библиотеката. Четенетo сега е още по-забавно." — 2 hours, 32 min ago
‘And remember, whenever you see a character in a novel, let alone a biography or history book, reduced and neatened into three adjectives, always distrust that description.’
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“When Paul Valéry was interviewing Albert Einstein, he asked the great scientist, “Do you carry a notebook around to record your ideas?” Einstein was an unflappable man, but this question clearly unnerved him. “No,” he answered. “There’s no need for that. You see I rarely have new ideas.”
― Novelist as a Vocation
― Novelist as a Vocation
“момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата, та да не се страхуват от нищо”
― Hurricane Season
― Hurricane Season
“What we call the imagination consists of fragments of memory that lack any clear connection with one another.”
― Novelist as a Vocation
― Novelist as a Vocation
“What is originality, after all, but the shape that results from the natural impulse to communicate to others that feeling of freedom, that unconstrained joy?”
― Novelist as a Vocation
― Novelist as a Vocation
“Tell people in America that your novel sold a million copies in Japan or won some literary prize and they’re basically unimpressed, but get published in The New Yorker and they start treating you very differently. I often find myself envious of a culture like this, where such a landmark magazine exists.”
― Novelist as a Vocation
― Novelist as a Vocation
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