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All Quotes by author - David Ebershoff
" An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting. "
She
Artist
Future
" Even the most meticulous historians work subjectively. The historian's point of view, his or her selection of subject and sources, the emphasis, the tone - all of these lead to subjective history, inevitably so. I do not say this as a criticism, merely as an observation. "
Work
Say
View
" History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up. "
History
Up
Some
" I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside. "
World
Window
Open
" I first read 'The Scarlet Letter' when I was fifteen. In it, I found a familiar vision of religious intolerance to the one around me. I grew up in the 1980s, when televangelists, with their fluffed up hair and their tears, self-righteously denounced all kinds of sinners, reserving a special, full-throated enthusiasm for gay people. "
People
Me
Hair
" If the Latterday Saints had not abandoned plural marriage, they would have remained a fringe religion and would never have moved into mainstream American culture. Today, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thrives. It is one of the fastest growing religions in the country and is the most successful American-born religion. "
Today
Marriage
Culture
" I love to read history; at its best, it is an art. "
History
Best
Art
" I'm not the kind of writer that can write eight hours a day... I'm the kind of writer that the more time I have, the less efficient I am. "
Time
Day
More
" In some ways, writing a novel, especially a novel set in the past and about characters who once lived, is about amassing enough details and arranging them properly in order to offer the reader a verisimilitude that satisfies his or her curiosity about the story at hand. "
Details
Writing
Story
" I usually don't throw around the word 'fabulous,' but how else to describe buildings decorated with mirrored water dragons, serpents tiled in colored glass, and hundreds - no, thousands, no, tens of thousands - of gold-leaf Buddhas? Luang Prabang has more than 47,000 residents, but its Buddha population must be ten times that. "
Water
Buildings
Fabulous
" Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, and why some relationships survive and others do not. There isn't a single marriage that couldn't provide enough narrative arc for a novel. "
Enough
Change
Me
" Since I was a kid, I feel most confident when I'm reading. "
Most
Reading
Feel
" Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era. "
Like
Imagine
Travel
" 'The Danish Girl' was published in 2000. Then it, too, would disappear, as most books do. It fell out of print almost everywhere. I wrote other books and, as an editor, worked on dozens more. Yet always, Lili stayed with me. "
Always
Me
More
" The soles of the best writers, a professor once told me, are worn down to holes. This is an incomplete measure, but the image of a writer grinding his or her shoes against curbs and cobblestones stuck with me. The story is always out there, the details around the corner or down the alley. "
Details
Story
Shoes
" We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion. "
History
Born
Disappear
" We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world, and many of us take great effort to change it. I believe everyone has at least once looked in the mirror and thought, 'That is not me. I am someone else. The world cannot see me as I really am.' "
Great
Change
Struggle
" When I see someone interesting on the subway - the lady with her new Bible or the delivery guy holding down a dozen Mylar balloons - my mind goes in two different directions. Where are they coming from? And where are they going? "
Mind
Down
Lady
" Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free. "
Want
You
Free
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