"You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences."

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#People Quotes #Really Deep Quotes #Novel Quotes

“I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.”
“I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.”
“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
“Yeah, about that,â€ says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. â€œDonâ€™t try something like that again.â€ â€œOr what?â€ I ask. â€œOr . . . or . . .â€ He canâ€™t think of anything good. â€œJust give me a minute.”
“I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.”
“You must first of all think justly. Donâ€™t sit in judgment over others when you donâ€™t know the truth of the matter.”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books
“Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees,-- Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned...”
“I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.”

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