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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
Anne Tyler
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
Anne Tyler
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
Anne Tyler
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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Anne Stevenson
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[People] didn't vote for me because they thought I was a racist and if you look at my campaign literature it is not much different than a lot of Republican literature and some conservative Democrats in the South.
David Duke
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
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We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
Anne Rice
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You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.
Anne Rice
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When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
Anne Rice
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When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
Anne Rice
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What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
Anne Rice
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It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
Anne Rice
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Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
Anne Rice
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster
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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
Marilyn vos Savant
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That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
Anne Rice
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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
Anne Rice
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I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.
Anne Rice
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I broke with my religion in college.
Anne Rice
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
Anne Rice
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Anne Rice
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I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.
Anne Rice
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Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
Anne Rice
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I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
Anne Rice
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