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Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

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When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.

~Jim Crace

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Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.

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My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.

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Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.

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I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

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For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.

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Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book.

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I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park.

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I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 1st, 1946

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