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Arthur Phillips
Arthur Phillips
American Novelist
Born: Apr 23, 1969
Feels Great His Me Work You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own taste. You develop your own tastes, you find things that do or do not fit your tastes, and therefore are or are not 'good.' Whether they have been labeled as produced by the right person is another matter. Arthur Phillips
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The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published. Arthur Phillips
Needs Word Before Think Too Market Books Memoir Memoirs Well Industry Readers Another Get Gets Justified Should Rid Many Now Shrinking Published Right
I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing. Arthur Phillips
Impossible Mind Thought Nothing Worry Out Something Write Put Doing Get Human Original
I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot. Arthur Phillips
Work Some Shakespeare Like His Lot
When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun. Arthur Phillips
Character Some Bears Invitation Name Author Same Just Fun
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking? Arthur Phillips
Life Art Great Me Better Sense Thinking Other Else Everyone Everyone Else One Thing Able Someone Mystery Head Art Form Than Any Going Fiction Form Convey Convincing Thing
As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up. Arthur Phillips
Work Strong Research Rule Strong Suit Lazy Feels Like Around Making Am Opposed Up Sitting Anything Which Prefer Avoid Resembling Things Suit
I am notorious for always having two beagles with me, in any and all circumstances. Arthur Phillips
Me Circumstances Having Always Am Any Notorious Two
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. Arthur Phillips
Our Our Lives Would Would-Be Exaggerate Over Still His American Influence Literature American Literature Hard Hemingway Larger Lives

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