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We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.


Novak Djokovic


#had #harder #history #life #past

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.


E. L. Doctorow


#face #i #like #look #off

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.


James Dobson


#couples #eludes #expect #find #i

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.


E. L. Doctorow


#become #century #detriment #developed #fact

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.


Cory Doctorow


#books #deliberately #emotionally #i #i think

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.


Cory Doctorow


#find #going #head #how #i

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.


E. L. Doctorow


#dwell #faulkner #fiction #framework #geography

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.


E. L. Doctorow


#belong #commas #detest #found #gave

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.


Jim Butcher


#family #friends #friendship #family

For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.


Anthony Doerr


#because #bring #competitive #environment #help






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