Henrietta Rose-Innes quotes
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“I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one.”
-- Henrietta Rose-InnesSource : "'I had an inkling I might win'". Interview with Lindesay Irvine, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2008.
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“Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me a small-time pusher, holding a couple of capsules of a novel compound, looking for vulnerable readers for whom it might turn out to be habit-forming. There's enough of them. When I walk into a bookshop--one of the big ones, a vast dispensary stacked with complex uppers and downers--I can't help thinking, my God, what army of junkies is all this feeding?”
-- Henrietta Rose-Innes
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Source : "The Heart of Things".
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