J. M. Coetzee Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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I want to be my own person.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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I have my own studio down in Miami.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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Peace is its own reward.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
