I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.
Haruki MurakamiTags: world people interview judgement observation haruki-murakami job paris-review
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation--who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him--but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope--qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.
Bill StyronTags: fiction criticism fiction-writing paris-review
I still maintain that the times get precisely the literature that they deserve, and that if the writing of this period is gloomy the gloom is not so much inherent in the literature as in the times.
Bill StyronTags: fiction-writing paris-review
If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
John le CarréTags: paris-review the-art-of-fiction-no-149
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