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“Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.”
-- Elif Batuman

#Love Is #Littles #Way
“The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.”
-- Elif Batuman

#Meaningful #Struggle #Book
“If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.”
-- Elif Batuman

#Thinking #Starting Over #Literature
“I think any start has to be a false start because really thereâ€™s no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit down and turn off the quality censor. And you have to keep the censor off, or you start second-guessing every other sentence. Sometimes the suspicion of a possible false start comes through, and you have to suppress it to keep writing. But it gets more persistent. And the moment you know itâ€™s really a false start is when you start â€¦ itâ€™s hard to put into words.”
-- Elif Batuman

#Writing #Thinking #Quality
“I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!”
-- Elif Batuman

#Book #Years #Empires
“Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.”
-- Elif Batuman

#Book #Secret #Pseudonyms
“When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?”
-- Elif Batuman

#Girl #Book #Reading
“I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.”
-- Elif Batuman

#Truth #Years #Care
“When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.”
-- Elif Batuman

#Writing #Drawing #Faithful

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