I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

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I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

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It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

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The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

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