"The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it."

-- Anton Chekhov

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“Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”
“Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.”
“Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.”
“I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?”
“It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.”
“I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.”
“If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.”
“You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.”

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