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“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
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“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”
― On Becoming a Novelist
― On Becoming a Novelist
“The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.”
― The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
― The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
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[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
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