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The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
The power of a story lies in its ability to connect us to others.
In fiction, the truth is often more believable than fact.
The best stories are those that leave room for the reader to imagine.
The first duty of a storyteller is to tell a story.
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
"A good book is an event in my life."
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
"The novel is the great democratic art form. It's the one place where you can be anyone, do anything, and say anything."
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
In the darkness, two things are common to all men: fear and the desire for light.
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
"I think the job of the novelist is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar."
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The world is everything that is the case.
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?"
