"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."
-Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.“
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"What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other."
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"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."
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"Puns are a form of humor with words."
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"I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog."
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"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror."
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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
-Candace Bushnell
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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