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You don't read books." She'd meant it as an accusation, as the worst sort of insult. She said it maliciously.
The existence of the apparition rather made me feel embarrassed, as if I had without knocking entered a room where somebody I thought I knew well (in this case, objective reality) was doing something quite strange and private.
Her works are said to be too far from reality to be considered real literature. "Why doesn't she write about life?" the people of Rabbit Back ask.
Martti, dear, we should never talk about what we're writing, or our writing might turn into nothing but talk.
Dear creatures, sometimes we are allowed to experience wondrous things and go places we couldn't reach even in dreams. Only someone who hasn't learned anything from it all can think that they'll be able to hold on to what they've found forever.
Even the best cook can't make chicken soup out of his own feet. There aren't so terribly many ingredients in anyone's life, less meat than there is on a sparrow. The average person could come up with at most two good novels. Many who think very highly of themselves can't manage more than a couple of anecdotes.
A person shouldn't talk too much, Ella realised. With writing, you could construct a whole world, but talking too much could demolish it.
Research brings order to the world. It makes things clearer, helps us to understand things. Could there be any more joy than that? Did you ever put together puzzles as a child? The universe is a puzzle with billions of pieces. Putting it together is society's highest shared responsibility, our right and our joy - and not only that, it is what separates us from the whole rest of creation, with a few possible exceptions.
Where would we be if anything at all could turn up in books?
Do you want to know how to write novels? I'll tell you the secret: start on page one and keep going, in order, until you come to the last page. Then stop.
Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It's a romantic idea, but it's complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river.
Later she came to realise that under one reality there's always another. And another one under that.
