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Quotes on reading and writing and passages from books I love

Posted on August 19, 2013September 3, 2014 by Annabel Smith

How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists…

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Posted on August 12, 2013February 7, 2014 by Annabel Smith

The most important thing of all in dialogue is not the text at all, but the subtext. That’s where the deeper meaning is…

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Posted on August 8, 2013February 3, 2014 by Annabel Smith

I’m amazed at the ease with which we forget what we felt, what we wanted. The speed with which we assume that now…

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Posted on July 29, 2013March 13, 2017 by Annabel Smith

Perhaps, the only fiction worth reading – the writing that ensnares you wholly, that lays siege to your heart – is that which…

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Posted on July 29, 2013September 3, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn’t struck you….

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Posted on July 22, 2013February 3, 2014 by Annabel Smith

The best thing I’ve done in recent years has been to… re-read certain books with dedication, with an old fidelity, as if something…

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Posted on July 4, 2013February 3, 2014 by Annabel Smith

I’m waiting for a voice. A voice that isn’t mine. An old voice, novelistic and solid. Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home

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Posted on June 28, 2013February 3, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Love is not what we think it will be, we can’t imagine what it will do to us going in, we can’t imagine…

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Posted on June 24, 2013February 3, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Sometimes when we write, we wash everything clean, as if by doing so we could advance toward something. We ought to simply describe…those…

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Posted on June 19, 2013September 3, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Rejection has value. It teaches us when our work or our skillset is not good enough and must be made better… Rejection refines…

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