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" I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen. "
Louis Begley
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Myself
Writing
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" I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell. "
Louis Begley
Writing
Me
Long
" As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time. "
Louis Begley
Time
Know
I Am
" If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction. "
Louis Begley
College
Would
Harvard
" My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared. "
Louis Begley
Year
Book
Matter
" I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English. "
Louis Begley
I Am
Writing
Think
" I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount. "
Louis Begley
Successful
Gifted
Group