“There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Art of Fiction No. 64, the Paris Review (Spring 1977)
Tag: The Art of Fiction
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“We are all so determined by our culture. Mainly because we learn to play roles.” — Manuel Puig, The Art of Fiction No. 114, the Paris Review (Winter II 1989)
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“That takes up a lot of time, hard times. Uses up whole days.” — Grace Paley, The Art of Fiction No. 131, the Paris Review (Fall 1992)
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“Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never.” — Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17, the Paris Review (Spring-Summer 1957)
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“By pushing the problem into the future you don’t solve it.” — Jeanette Winterson, The Art of Fiction No. 150, the Paris Review (Winter 1997)
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“I don’t mean to imply that I successfully practice what I preach. I try, that’s all.” — Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17, the Paris Review (Spring-Summer 1957)
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“You can’t reconstruct the bunch of grapes from the bottle of wine.” — Jeanette Winterson, The Art of Fiction No. 150, the Paris Review (Winter 1997)
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“It’s very hard to articulate grief in a world which doesn’t want you to, which tells you to push on, to continue.” — Ali Smith, The Art of Fiction No. 236, the Paris Review (Summer 2017)
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“In sum, once I was twenty and not so young, now I’m sixty inclined on the young side.” — Bernard Malamud, The Art of Fiction No. 52, the Paris Review (Spring 1975)
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“The only reason for writing history, I think,is so we can try to understand the present. Because of that, the questions it seems relevant to us to ask about the past are informed by our experience of the present. You’re asking the past different questions from what people did fifty years ago, or will be doing in another fifty years.” — Pat Barker, The Art of Fiction No. 243, The Paris Review (Winter 2018)
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