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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will t

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. – Michael Ondaatje

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Thats Anils path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. – Michael Ondaatje

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You never know if youre a writer. You cant trust it. If you woke up and said, Im a writer, it would be gone. You wouldnt see anything for miles – even the dust would be running away. – Ali Smith

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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you dont throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. – Corrie Ten Boom

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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears. – F. L. Lucas

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. – Samuel Johnson

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