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I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.
~ O. R. Melling
1970s
Arts
Attended
Canada
Could
Degree
Early
Fortunate
Liberal
Liberal Arts
Majors
Programmes
Take
True
University
You
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
~ O. R. Melling
Always
Books
Day
Fiction
Go
Non-Fiction
Novel
Read
Several
Tastes
Though
Two
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
~ O. R. Melling
Adult
Affect
Books
Childhood
Children
Get
Influence
Life
More
Much
Our
Stay
Than
Them
Through
Us
Write
You
Young
Young Adults
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
~ S. Ansky
Border
Difficult
Experienced
Fate
He
His
Jewish
Languages
Live
Lives
Misfortune
Sort
Soul
Streets
Three
Torn
Two
Writer
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
~ S. Ansky
Anecdotes
Consider
Expert
Few
Himself
Jew
Proverbs
Recite
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Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.
~ S. Ansky
Am
Another
Bearing
Directions
Environment
Eternal
I Am
Left
Longing
Lucky
Myself
Normal
Own
People
Raised
Those
Threw
Whose
Work
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
~ S. Ansky
Among
Behalf
Find
First
Jews
Literature
Masses
Me
Oppressed
Seemed
Stepped
Them
Twenty-Five
Wanted
Work
Working
Would
Years
Years Ago
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A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.
~ Sally Rooney
Ask
Debating
Did
Help
Honestly
Know
Lot
Me
People
Writer
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A lot of the time, I read something I've written, and I think, 'Well, that's competent. It's not exactly breaking any boundaries. It's not exactly transgressive. It's just a bunch of fake people in a room talking to each other. But maybe there's a value to that.'
~ Sally Rooney
Any
Boundaries
Breaking
Bunch
Competent
Each
Exactly
Fake
Fake People
I Think
Just
Lot
Maybe
Other
People
Read
Room
Something
Talking
Think
Time
Value
Well
Written
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As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached 'The Aeneid' just as I would a contemporary poem or novel - and, despite my ignorance, I was rewarded with a rich and affecting portrait of, among other things, the memorably doomed love affair between Aeneas and Dido.
~ Sally Rooney
Affair
Affecting
Among
Between
Classical
Contemporary
Despite
Doomed
Ignorance
Just
Knowledge
Love
Love Affair
Mythology
Next
Novel
Other
Poem
Portrait
Reader
Rewarded
Rich
Things
Would
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As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.
~ Sally Rooney
Equally
Forms
Literary
Love
Most
Novels
Often
Read
Reader
To Love
Try
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Being shortlisted for the Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize is, of course, a real honour for me and my work. When I wrote 'Conversations with Friends,' it was hard for me to imagine the book even finding readers - so it's a huge privilege to find it judged alongside such exciting and innovative new writing. I'm very grateful.
~ Sally Rooney
Alongside
Being
Book
Conversations
Course
Dylan
Dylan Thomas
Even
Exciting
Find
Finding
Friends
Grateful
Hard
Honour
Huge
Imagine
Innovative
International
Judged
Me
New
Privilege
Prize
Readers
Real
Thomas
University
Very
Work
Writing
Wrote
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Class is something that I think seriously about and try to organise my politics around. I think there are lots of novels that don't really engage with questions of class at all, and they get less conversation about issues of social privilege than I do. But it's better to try and talk about it and maybe fail.
~ Sally Rooney
About
Around
Better
Class
Conversation
Engage
Fail
Get
I Think
Issues
Less
Lots
Maybe
Novels
Organise
Politics
Privilege
Questions
Really
Seriously
Social
Something
Talk
Than
Think
Try
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Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match.
~ Sally Rooney
Dialogue
Fun
Kind
Like
Match
Most
Tennis
Write
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Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
~ Sally Rooney
Centuries
Communication
Dominant
Eighteenth
Emerging
Find
Forms
Interpersonal
Language
Literary
Nineteenth
Novels
Somehow
Think
Way
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Everyone has a life. I haven't had a particularly interesting one.
~ Sally Rooney
Everyone
Had
Interesting
Life
Particularly
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For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe: it makes my own life seem nice and small.
~ Sally Rooney
Contemplating
Football
Life
Makes
Me
My Own
Nice
Own
Play
Play Football
Seem
Small
Staring
Stars
Universe
Unlike
Up
Vastness
Watching
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I am not trying to speak for anyone else, never mind an entire generation. I don't even know what that means.
~ Sally Rooney
Am
Anyone
Anyone Else
Else
Entire
Even
Generation
I Am
Know
Means
Mind
Never
Speak
Trying
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I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.
~ Sally Rooney
Am
Being
Feeling
Feelings
Gives
Help
I Am
Important
Important Person
Like
Me
Person
Strange
Treated
Very
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I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.
~ Sally Rooney
Get
Hang
How
Quite
Really
Teenager
Understand
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