American - Novelist | April 10, 1941 -
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.
Paul Theroux
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If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
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When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
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I think I understand passion. Love is something else.
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I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.
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Love doesn't last.
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The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
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Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
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I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
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The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
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People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
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