"Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice."

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Source : "Kenzaburo Oe, The Art of Fiction No. 195". Interviewed with Sarah Fay, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 2007.

Kenzaburo Oe

#Voice Quotes #Style Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.”
“You don't need to win every medal to be successful.”
“The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.”
“When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate”
“If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.”

Source : "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo". Book by Mary Douglas, 1966.
“If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.”
“I believe that if you are bringing a child into the world, you should be willing to accept them in any reality. Whether they are Black, White, Asian, have four fingers, are disabled, gayâ€¦.that the only wish should be for a happy and healthy baby.”
“The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.”

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