Quotes by Rafael Yglesias - Page 1

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.
Rafael Yglesias / Novelist
Fun
Fun Things
Interesting
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People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.
Rafael Yglesias / Novelist
God
Believe
Religious
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To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
Rafael Yglesias / Novelist
Advice
Circumstances
Entwined
Regard
Skepticism
Loves
Me Advice People
Natures
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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
Rafael Yglesias / Novelist
Break
Bring
Consist
Disappointments
Entertain
Hearts
Provoke
Reassure
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Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
Rafael Yglesias / Novelist
Busy
Depends
Cliches
Escape
Sadly
Trap
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It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
Rafael Yglesias / Novelist
Each Day
Fuel
Life Experience
Life Work Experience
Conceive
Same Story
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I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
Rafael Yglesias / Novelist
Heroic
Ill
Praised
Readers
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
Rafael Yglesias / Novelist
Arthur
Brilliant
Closest
Clue
Conan
Notion
Stranger
Friend
Closest Friend
Deduce
Detective
Entranced
Trusting
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
Rafael Yglesias / Novelist
Gone Away
Mean
Troublesome
Two
Time Always Me
Time Me Difficult
Entirely
Negotiate
Time People
Two People
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
Rafael Yglesias / Novelist
Attraction
Bourgeois
Friendliness
Grace
Manhattan
Metropolis
Prosperous
Rough
Versions
Afford
Love City Energy
Gaining
Muscular
Tourist
Young People
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