I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. … - Colm Toibin

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Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he’s not going to take a patient’s temperature.

Colm Toibin

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

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Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

Country, Military, Novelist, Probably, Running

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Manipulation, Plain, Realize, Realizing, Writing

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

Becoming, Funny, Life, Ordinary, Way

While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.

Intelligent, Lying, Self, Tone, Wait, Work

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Pull, Strong, Suffering, Word, Work, Writing

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Koren Zailckas

Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.

Cute, Girl, Gone, Pen, Privilege, Tongue

Cassandra Clare

And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her up a plate of cold chicken. As for the rest of you-" He paused for a moment, as if he were about to give them an order-send them to bed, perhaps, or back to the library to do more research. The moment passed, and a look of puzzlement crossed his face. "Blast it, I can't remember what I was going to say," he announced, and vanished into the kitchen.

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Sheila Heti

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

Done, Having, Ideas, Things, Writing

Willie Mays

Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

Assume, Assuming, Guy, Other Guys

Bruce Kovner