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“I generally enjoy chores like cleaning, cooking, shopping for groceries, because, while my hands are occupied, I can also entertain vague thoughts about my characters.” —Marie NDiaye buff.ly/EEkOfkt

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“Until Carl and I had children, I really was writing very bourgeois little things—my work was very self-referential, female. Pathetic, to use one of Eileen Myles’s favorite words.” —Fanny Howe buff.ly/7hjj2jf

“About six months after our daughter was born, my husband calmly set the idea on the table, like a decorative gun. I said I’d think about it.” Jean Garnett on her open marriage. theparisreview.org/blog/2022/06/2…

Alberto Caeiro, aka Pessoa, in this dedicated daily from @parisreview mailchi.mp/theparisreview…

“On Nabokov’s grave in Montreux is simply written ‘écrivain.’ I feel very close to this sentiment.” A conversation between Joshua Cohen and Vladimir Sorokin. buff.ly/rm6LBf7

“If you’re a real writer, you write no matter what.” —Irwin Shaw buff.ly/kZxJK4O

“Even now, when I watch Phil playing these parts in films that now capture a distant past, in roles that have become familiar to us, I can see so much of who he was.” Emily Barr on her brother, Philip Seymour Hoffman. theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04/2…

“Oh no! Reading beautiful books can’t be traumatizing. Seeing awful things can be—but reading? I don’t believe in that at all.” —Marie NDiaye buff.ly/EEkOfkt

“A human being is rather like a tune; he has various notes in his emotions, in his life.” This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with V. S. Pritchett. buff.ly/DiPm6s7

“It’s always tempting to show off, to show how much you know. The thing about writing novels is that it must be a form of self-suppression.” —Colm Tóibín buff.ly/zCYiggu

“After I won the Pulitzer … My parents were stunned, and extremely proud, but I remember my father said, ‘You should always have a backup plan. You’re like a politician now, and you will go in and out of favor.’” —Jhumpa Lahiri buff.ly/DPblyK8

“It was my fate to be born in Indiana. I probably would have chosen Edinburgh if you had asked me, or perhaps Rome. But I believe we start with what we are, as writers, and Indiana is a land rich in legend.” —Marguerite Young buff.ly/qwl8p0A

“its bottoms mysterious ocean mirrors being that blaze that fail at spawned oxygen meters that rivet as spectral gladioli” From “Torrential by Unknown Emergence” by Will Alexander buff.ly/kctKFRX

“There are so many layers to us, and some of them we never see—or we see only in glimpses that we try to give shape to by using our brains, which are limited.” —Mary Gaitskill buff.ly/xKlckz6

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“Oh dear, it’s such an immutable relationship. Everyone who has that has the same problem. It’s sibling rivalry. Plain and simple. I knew she was a genius. She was the biggest influence on my life.” —Fanny Howe buff.ly/7hjj2jf

“I tell people, Make a list of ten things you hate and tear them down in a short story or poem. Make a list of ten things you love and celebrate them. When I wrote ‘Fahrenheit 451’ I hated book burners and I loved libraries. So there you are” —Ray Bradbury buff.ly/YHOqgDd

“I am simply a fool of literature who trusts his intuition alone—it’s all that I have. To put it generally, a book’s intonation is very important to me.” A conversation between Joshua Cohen and Vladimir Sorokin. buff.ly/rm6LBf7

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