"I'm a Jewish Jane Austen."

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Source : Nextbook Interview, September 14, 2004.

Howard Jacobson

“More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.”
“Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.”
“Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.”
“I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.”
“I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.”

Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.
“There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.”
“We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.”

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