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Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

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The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

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Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

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Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.

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Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

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In a comic novel, the language has to stay perky so the reader will keep laughing. And yet it sort of defies making it deep, so it's hard to make it both funny and profound, comic and deep, all at the same time.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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Born: September 26, 1949 (age 75)
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