Deborah Smith Quotes
Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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I love science fiction.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
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My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
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Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
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"In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work"
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I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.
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Years before you scream at somebody or embarrass one of your teammates without even thinking about it. That's not the case anymore. They are there for you. You have to be there for them. They don't want to make errors.
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Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.
