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/ page 842 of 1205 /I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.
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Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
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It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
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Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
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A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
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I've always thought my poems told stories.
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I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.
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The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
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A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
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I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
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The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Music is only love looking for words.
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