"No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that."

-- Elizabeth Kostova

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“I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed.”
“Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.”
“To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.”
“The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.”
“Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.”
“Never deceive a friend.”
“I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.”
“I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.”

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