"I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers."

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Francine Prose

#Thinking Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Dramatic Quotes

“I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.”
“What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?”
“The work doesn't begin until you get tired!”
“Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?”
“I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like”
“The end comes to all of us...but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?”
“The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.”
“This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Feb 12, 2012

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