I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
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Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.Vladimir Nabokov
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
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The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
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