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I'm not one to probe my limitations.

~Katie Kitamura

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People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.

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We act in ways that are mysterious to ourselves.

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For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

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Generally speaking, there's some quality of compulsion that attaches itself to the idea of the list. It's true that lists organise the daily chaos of working life. But the impulse to make lists has to do with something more than either administrative practicalities or the record of a creative process.

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How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.

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'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands and attended gigs: the anti-hipster's defence against 'the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.'

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I'm always interested in a character who does something and doesn't understand why they've done it.

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I like a lot of Spanish language writers. I really love Javier Marias.

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As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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