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"A book is a door. You open it. You step through."
A novel is a long answer to a question you can’t quite formulate.
The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
The historian must have some kinship with his subject. The dead will not speak unless they are properly addressed.
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
You can never know anyone as completely as you want.
When you are young, you think you will be happy when you are older. But then you get older and you realize you were happy when you were young.
"War is just a series of moments when you don't die, strung together by fear and luck."
"Sometimes you have to surrender before you win."
The more specific you are, the more universal you become.
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.
A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
I think the moment you stop learning, you stop being a writer.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."