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Niall Williams
“The infancy of my playing was fostered by an absence of criticism. The wisdom of the old people was incalculable.”
Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

Guadalupe Nettel
“I was overwhelmed by an undefinable sensation, too serene to be called anxiety, but unpleasant enough not to go unnoticed.”
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Arundhati Roy
“When it came to me, Mrs Roy taught me how to think, then raged against my thoughts. She taught me to be free and raged against my freedom. She taught me to write and resented the author I became”
Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

Niall Williams
“I chose Ganga's method for dealing with catastrophe and pretended nothing had happened. It wasn't so easy. The scene not only stayed with me, it grew larger for not being spoken and proved perhaps the theorem of imaginary numbers by showing that imagination is many times the size of reality.”
Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

Niall Williams
“There in the kitchen, I flushed into the roots of my hair and felt the stirring of a family trait I hadn't realised I possessed until right then, but which would inform the kind of life I would end up living, that is, what authority provoked in me was a desire to be an outlaw.”
Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

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