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The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.

~Arthur Phillips

Topics: Another Before Books Get Gets Industry Justified Many Market Memoir Memoirs Needs Now Published Readers Rid Right Should Shrinking Think Too Well Word I Think

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I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own taste. You develop your own tastes, you find things that do or do not fit your tastes, and therefore are or are not 'good.' Whether they have been labeled as produced by the right person is another matter.

~Arthur Phillips

Topics: Aesthetic Another Been Develop Find Fit Good Labeled Like Made Matter Objective Other Own Person Produced Really Right Right Person Something Standard Taste Tastes Than Therefore Things Whether Who You Your

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I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

~Arthur Phillips

Topics: Doing Get Human Impossible Mind Nothing Original Out Put Something Thought Worry Write I Can

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I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

~Arthur Phillips

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When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.

~Arthur Phillips

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Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

~Arthur Phillips

Topics: Able Any Art Art Form Better Convey Convincing Else Everyone Everyone Else Fiction Form Going Great Head Life Me Mystery One Thing Other Sense Someone Than Thing Thinking

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Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

~Arthur Phillips

Topics: Fiction Memoir

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As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up.

~Arthur Phillips

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I am notorious for always having two beagles with me, in any and all circumstances.

~Arthur Phillips

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Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

~Arthur Phillips

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 23rd, 1969

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