Andre Aciman Quotes
I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
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The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.
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The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.
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I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.
