24. Ishiguro: You have to go to lonely places in your heart.
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25. Knausgaard: The novel suffers from the pressure of selection, that its contents are selected; but you can opt out of that.
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26. Raymond Chandler: Every city has its own language, languages.
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27. Mann: Allegory and reality have to be almost imperceptibly laid over each other to work in the novel, paint and varnish.
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28. Harper Lee: Goodness is as moving as tragedy.
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29. Hemingway: That very specific, useful, distancing trick of taking one character's dialogue and giving it to a different character.
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30. Nabokov: To the exile, everything is synecdoche.
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31. Shakespeare: All experience starts from the body out and writers especially are susceptible to forgetting it.
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32. DFW: In lonfgorm n/f, have one VERY specific point to make rather than aiming for overview. Turns your digressions into the expansions.
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33. Virginia Woolf: Take much bigger risks guessing what other people think than caution or instinct would suggest because nobody knows anyway.
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