You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end … - Julian Barnes

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You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

Julian Barnes

You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?

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Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

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Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Fiction, Honest, Thinking, Truth, Writing

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

Enough, Literature, Realize, Realizing, Things, Writing

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

Given, Grief, Mean, Names, Separate

And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

Damned, Live, Love You, Names, Order

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Phyllis McGinley

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

Brave, Children, Mother, Necessity, Rarest, Women

Norman Mailer

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

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Winona Ryder

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Carl Jung

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

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Jeff Vespa

That was my experience with everybody in the book. That was what was so cool. It's just an excuse to hang out with people. It's not for a movie; it's not for a magazine. No one's here telling us what to do. We're at my house shooting. I just get to go, "What do you want to do today?" We're only there because we want to be there because of each other. There's no other reason.

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